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Hwang, Yu, Kim, Jung, Kang, Kwon, and Park: Risk Factors of Infectious Complications after Transurethral Prostate Surgery in Patients with Preoperative Sterile Urine

Abstract

Purpose

To determine the risk factors of infectious complications after transurethral surgery of the prostate in patients with sterile urine.

Materials and Methods

A total of 183 patients who underwent transurethral resection of the prostate or holmium laser enucleation of the prostate were reviewed. All patients had urinalyses and urine cultures preoperatively, on the day of catheter removal, and at two weeks postoperatively. Patients were divided into two groups according to whether preoperative urinalysis showed sterile urine (group I, n=99) or not (group II, n=84). Clinical parameters were compared between the two groups. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression were used for estimation of infectious complications after surgery in group I.

Results

Compared with group II, group I showed younger age, fewer post voided residuals, low prostate specific antigen levels, short-term duration of oral antibiotic therapy, and low incidence of infectious complications (p<0.05). In univariate analysis in group I, age, diabetes mellitus (DM), prostate volume, resection weight, and duration of oral antibiotic therapy showed an association with infectious complications (p<0.05). Factors showing independent association with infectious complications in group I were DM (odds ratio [OR], 7.31; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.83-29.0; p=0.005), resection weight (OR, 1.03; 95% CI, 1.01-1.06; p=0.039), and duration of oral antibiotics (OR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.43-0.94; p=0.025).

Conclusions

Kinds of antibiotics showed no effect on infectious complication, therefore, second generation cephalosporin is recommended for reduction of antibiotic resistance. Clinicians should be aware of the high risk for infectious complication in patients with DM and who underwent large volume resection of the prostate.

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Table 1.
Comparisons of clinical parameters between two groups
Variable Group I (n=99) Group II (n=84) p-value
Age (y) 71.6±7.4 74.8±6.4 0.003a
Maximal flow rate (ml/sec) 9.9±6.9 8.1±5.5 0.104a
Post void residual (ml) 100.4±74.6 196.3±245.2 0.002a
Prostate volume (ml) 49.2±31.3 52.2±28.1 0.503a
Prostate specific antigen (ng/ml) 0.2±0.6 0.5±0.7 0.002a
International Prostate Symptom Score 21.9±9.0 20.6±10.2 0.409a
Storage symptom 9.2±3.9 9.4±4.9 0.764a
Obstructive symptom 12.7±5.8 12.1±6.3 0.515a
Quality of life 4.1±1.0 4.0±1.3 0.795a
Resection weight (g) 21.4±19.8 23.8±17.0 0.412a
Foley duration (d) 4.3±1.2 4.5±1.5 0.296a
Intravenous antibiotics duration (d) 3.7±1.1 3.6±1.1 0.754a
Oral antibiotics duration (d) 5.8±2.2 6.7±2.3 0.010a
Diabetes mellitus 17 (17.2) 16 (19.0) 0.847b
Surgical method     0.083b
TUR 60 (60.6) 62 (73.8)  
HoLEP 39 (39.4) 22 (26.2)  
Antibiotics (cephalosporin)     0.371b
2nd generation 59 (59.6) 44 (52.4)  
3rd generation 40 (40.4) 40 (47.6)  
Infectious complication incidence 27 (27.3) 37 (44.0) 0.020b
Operation time (min) 110.7±49.4 115.8±50.4 0.484a

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation, or number (%). Group I: patients with preoperative sterile urine, group II: patients with preoperative pyuria or urogenital abnormality, TUR: trans urethral resection, HoLEP: holmium laser enucleation of prostate.

a Student's t-test

b chi-square test.

Table 2.
Univariate analysis of factors affecting infectious complicationsin groupI
Variable OR (95% CI) p-value
Age 1.07 (1.00-1.15) 0.027
Diabetes mellitus 2.94 (0.99-8.69) 0.050
Maximal flow rate 0.92 (0.83-1.02) 0.920
Post void residual 1.00 (0.99-1.00) 0.446
Prostate volume 1.01 (1.00-1.02) 0.036
Prostate specific antigen 1.07 (0.97-1.17) 0.151
International Prostate Symptom Score 0.98 (0.93-1.03) 0.501
Storage symptom 0.99 (0.88-1.12) 0.967
Obstructive symptom 0.96 (0.89-1.04) 0.405
Quality of life 1.03 (0.66-1.61) 0.873
Resection weight 1.02 (1.00-1.05) 0.036
TUR vs. HoLEP 0.92 (0.37-2.28) 0.867
Foley duration 1.13 (0.81-1.59) 0.460
Intravenous antibiotics duration (d) 1.08 (0.75-1.55) 0.677
Oral antibiotics duration 0.68 (0.49-0.95) 0.026
Antibiotics (3rd generation) vs. (2nd generation) 1.01 (0.41-2.50) 0.967
Operation time (min) 0.99 (0.98-1.00) 0.222

Group I: patients with preoperative sterile urine, OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval, TUR: trans urethral resection, HoLEP: holmium laser enucleation of prostate.

Table 3.
Multivariate analysis of factors affecting infectious complicationsin groupI
Variable OR (95% CI) p-value
Diabetes mellitus 6.54 (1.81-23.5) 0.004
Resection weight 1.03 (1.01-1.06) 0.014
Oral antibiotics duration 0.64 (0.43-0.94) 0.024

Group I: patients with preoperative sterile urine, OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval.

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