Septic complications and hospital admissions after transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy: incidence rates and outcomes in 913 consecutive biopsies

Int Urol Nephrol. 2014 Dec;46(12):2335-6. doi: 10.1007/s11255-014-0815-x. Epub 2014 Aug 15.

Authors

Branimir Lodeta¹, Vladimir Trkulja

Affiliation

¹ Department of Urology, General Hospital Varaždin, Ivana Meštrovića bb, 42000, Varaždin, Croatia, branimir.lodeta@gmail.com.

PMID: 25118613
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-014-0815-x

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Antibiotic Prophylaxis
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Image-Guided Biopsy*
Incidence
Male
Postoperative Complications / epidemiology*
Postoperative Complications / microbiology
Postoperative Complications / prevention & control
Prospective Studies
Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood
Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
Rectum
Risk Factors
Sepsis / epidemiology*
Sepsis / microbiology
Sepsis / prevention & control
Ultrasonography, Interventional*

Substances

Prostate-Specific Antigen