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UTIs Prevalent In IBD, Urinary Calculi Patients

Category: Personal Health     Author: Georgina Tyburski     Posted: Friday - July 10, 2015

From http://www.hcplive.com/

Patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who also have urinary calculi were recently found more likely to experience urinary tract infections, renal failure, and sepsis.

The prevalence of severely infected urolithiasis among these patients inevitably suggests stone disease screening, improved outpatient medical management, as well as early elective surgery for the detected stones.

The study, published in the journal Urology, was led by Naeem Bhojani, MD, Division of Urology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Bhojani and his colleagues compared a sample of patients afflicted with IBD and urolithiasis with a group of individuals with urinary stone formations, who were then admitted to US emergency departments with infected urolithiasis. The researchers identified those specific patients from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample between 2006 and 2009.

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