PubMed · 6879883
Septicemia after transurethral prostatectomy.
Abstract
Septicemia occurred in 18 of 1,604 patients subjected to transurethral resection (TUR) of the prostate. Six patients died postoperatively, 4 of septicemia. In 11 patients septicemia was provoked by TUR in the presence of urinary infection and in the absence of appropriate antibiotic cover. Septicemia was provoked by catheter removal in 2 similarly infected patients. In the remaining 5 patients the urine was sterile at operation but became infected prior to catheter removal, and this maneuver precipitated septicemia.
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D M Murphy, F R Falkiner, M Carr, M T Cafferkey, W A Gillespie. 1983. Septicemia after transurethral prostatectomy.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(83)90493-4
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