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Urinary Tract Infection Challenges: Beyond the Basics, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 38-2 - May 13, 2024
- Editor: Kalpana Gupta
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 6 5 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 6 5 5 - 5
In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, guest editor Kalpana Gupta brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Urinary Tract Infection Challenges. This issue aims to… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, guest editor Kalpana Gupta brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Urinary Tract Infection Challenges. This issue aims to serve clinicians and scholars well over the next decade, with the goal of helping the principles that are currently "beyond the basics" become part of everyday armamentarium.
- Contains 11 relevant, practice-oriented topics including Reducing Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria; Diagnostic Stewardship for Urine Cultures; Urinary Tract Infection in Male Patients; Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostic and Management Considerations in People with Spinal Cord Injury and Neurogenic Bladder; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on UTI Challenges, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Scientific Advances in Understanding the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Prevention of Urinary Tract Infection in the Past 10 Years
- Key points
- Pathogenesis of urinary tract infection
- Involvement of the immune system in urinary tract infection
- Rapid diagnostics of urinary tract infection
- Alternative approaches to treat and prevent recurrent urinary tract infection
- Summary
- The Urinary Microbiome: Improving Diagnostics and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Females
- Key points
- Introduction
- Presence of urinary microbiota in asymptomatic women
- Expanded quantitative urine culture in urinary tract infection management
- Bacterial genetic (molecular) diagnostic testing in urinary tract infection management
- Influence on other microbiomes (gut and vaginal) on urinary microbiome and urinary tract infection
- The future of urinary tract infection management in the urinary microbiome era
- Author contributions
- Funding
- Diagnostic Stewardship for Urine Cultures
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definition of diagnostic stewardship
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Reducing Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: What Works?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Antibiotic Stewardship Interventions for Urinary Tract Infections in Outpatient Settings: A Narrative Review
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclaimer
- Unitary Tract Infection Treatment: When to Use What Agents including Beta-lactam Combination Agents
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Approach to the Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Urinary Tract Infection in Male Patients: Challenges in Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology
- Specific syndrome definitions and nomenclature
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Recurrent UTI in Women–Risk Factors and Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Our patient
- Potentially modifiable risk factors
- Prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection
- Future directions
- Clinics care points
- Managing External Urinary Catheters
- Key points
- Introduction
- Types of external urinary catheters
- Indications for use of external urinary catheters
- Contraindications for use of external urinary catheters
- Complications of external urinary catheters
- Management and handling of external urinary catheters
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Diagnosing and Managing Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Pathogenesis
- Microbiology
- Susceptibility to infection
- Clinical manifestations
- Diagnostic evaluation
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Trends in antimicrobial resistance
- Management of kidney transplant recipients with suspected urinary tract infections
- Candiduria
- Recurrent urinary tract infections
- Uropathogens identified in kidney donor urine
- Impact of urinary tract infections on graft function
- BK virus infection
- Future areas for research
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostic and Management Considerations in People with Spinal Cord Injury and Neurogenic Bladder
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology and risk factors
- Pathogenesis
- Definitions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 38-2
- Published: May 13, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443246531
- eBook ISBN: 9780443246555
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Kalpana Gupta
Affiliations and expertise
Investigator, CHOIR
Chief of Infectious Diseases & Attending Physician,
VA Boston Healthcare System
Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
Lecturer, Harvard Medical School