Urinary Tract Infections, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics
Published on 18. February 2014
417 pages
978-0-323-28709-8 (ISBN)
Description
This issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, edited by Dr. Kalpana Gupta, is devoted to Urinary Tract Infections. Articles in this issue include Epidemiology and Definition of Urinary Tract Infection Syndromes; Approach to a Positive Urine Culture; Diagnosis and Management of UTI in the Emergency Room; Diagnosis and Management of UTI in Older Adults; Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Catheter-Associated UTI; Management of Non-Catheter Associated Complicated UTI; Management of UTI due to Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms; Diagnosis and Fungal Management of Fungal UTI; UTI Issues in Special Populations; Prevention of Recurrent UTI; and UTI Pathogenesis.
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Content
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Consulting Editor
- Editor
- Authors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Forthcoming Issues
- Recent Issues
- Preface
- Urinary Tract Infection Syndromes
- Key points
- Disease description
- UTI syndromes and their occurrence: asymptomatic bacteriuria, cystitis, pyelonephritis, and catheter-associated UTI
- Recurrence
- Bacteriology
- Risk factors
- Disease burden
- Summary
- Approach to a Positive Urine Culture in a Patient Without Urinary Symptoms
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology and significance of ASB
- Management of ASB
- Summary
- Review criteria
- Diagnosis and Management of Urinary Tract Infection in the Emergency Department and Outpatient Settings
- Key points
- Introduction
- Classification/Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology
- Clinical presentation
- Laboratory diagnosis
- Imaging
- Urolithiasis and UTI
- Management
- Disposition
- Summary
- Management of Urinary Tract Infections From Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Determinants of resistance
- Clinical implications
- New therapies in the pipeline
- Diagnosis and Management of Fungal Urinary Tract Infection
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Pathogenesis
- Microbiological aspects
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Diagnosis and Management of Urinary Tract Infection in Older Adults
- Key points
- Definitions of urinary tract infection
- Definitions of asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Epidemiology of urinary tract infection
- Epidemiology of asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Microbiology
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Risk factors
- Diagnosis of UTI in community-dwelling older adults
- Diagnosis of UTI in long-term care facilities
- Management
- Prevention
- Summary
- Urinary Tract Infections in Special Populations
- Key points
- Introduction
- Patients with diabetes
- Renal transplant patients
- HIV infection
- Spinal cord injury
- Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
- Key points
- Epidemiology of CAUTIs
- Diagnosis of CAUTIs
- Management of CAUTIs
- Preventing CAUTIs
- Implementation: the role of bundles, collaboratives, and leadership
- Summary
- Management of Non-catheter-associated Complicated Urinary Tract Infection
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diagnosing a complicated UTI
- Approach to specific complicated infections
- Summary
- Prevention of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Women
- Key points
- Introduction
- Antimicrobial prophylaxis
- Self-diagnosis and self-treatment with antimicrobials
- Nonantimicrobial strategies
- Discussion
- Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Host factors in UTI
- Summary and discussion
- Index
