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Spontaneous Bladder Perforation in a Patient with a Long-Term Intraurethral Catheter [PDF]
Urogenital Tract Infection, 2023 Urinary catheters are commonly used to address various urinary problems. However, the catheter itself can be a cause of several complications, including catheter-associated urinary tract infections, damage to the bladder and kidneys, and, in extremely ...
Taegi Choi +8 more
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GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, 2016 Introduction: Urinary tract infections range among the most frequent infections not only in hospital patients but also in residents of long-term care facilities for the elderly. Urinary catheters are the greatest risk factor for urinary tract infections.
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Current material engineering strategies to prevent catheter encrustation in urinary tracts
Materials Today Bio, 2022 Catheters and ureteric stents have played a vital role in relieving urinary obstruction in many urological conditions. With the increasing use of urinary catheters/stents, catheter/stent-related complications such as infection and encrustation are also ...
Qin Yao +5 more
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2019 Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are the common hospital-associated infections (HAIs), which can be prevented by practicing necessary precautions and by using antimicrobial urinary catheters (UCs).
Manaf Al-Qahtani +3 more
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Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2017 Introduction: Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), an important causative agent of urinary tract infections (UTIs), carries virulence factors which are clustered on pathogenicity islands (PAIs).
Farzaneh Firoozeh +2 more
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URINARY INFECTIONS IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS: KIDNEY TRANSPLANT AND DIALYSIS
Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes, 2019 Patients on hemodialysis often have more urinary tract infections (UTIs) due to immunosuppression, lack of germ removal, presence of lithiasis, neurogenic bladder, abnormalities in the urinary tract, use of intravenous catheters and urinary catheters ...
María José Pomares
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BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction Chronic urinary retention is a common lower urinary tract disorder, mostly neurogenic or idiopathic in origin. The preferred treatment is clean intermittent urinary self-catheterisation (CISC) four to six times a day.
Tess van Doorn +3 more
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Development of an antimicrobial urinary catheter to inhibit urinary catheter encrustation [PDF]
Microbiology Discovery, 2015 Background: Encrustation of urinary catheters is a frequent problem in patients with long-term indwelling catheters colonised with urease-positive bacteria such as Proteus mirabilis. Catheter blockage may follow catheter encrustation, potentially leading to systemic infection.
Jordan, RPC +4 more
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Long-Term Reduction of Bacterial Adhesion on Polyurethane by an Ultra-Thin Surface Modifier
Biomedicines, 2022 Indwelling urinary catheters are employed widely to relieve urinary retention in patients. A common side effect of the use of these catheters is the formation of urinary tract infections (UTIs), which can lead not only to severe medical complications ...
Brian De La Franier +3 more
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