The Effect of Preoperative Culture Timing on Postoperative Outcomes of Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery

Recruiting

• Conditions: Urinary Infections; Urolithiasis

• Registration Number: NCT06723327
• Lead Sponsor: Namik Kemal University

Brief Summary

The rate of complications (unexpected situations) after retrograde intrarenal surgery is reported to be 9-25%, and the majority of these are postoperative infections. Surgery must be performed under sterile (microbial-free) urine culture to prevent these complications. There are guideline recommendations regarding sterile urine culture reporting, but it is not clear how long in advance it should be taken. The possibility of the patient becoming infectious again during the period leading up to surgery is a condition that needs to be determined. Therefore, the culture taken before surgery should be compared with the urine culture result taken at the latest possible time before the operation.

Detailed Description

Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery (RIRC) (a surgery to fragment stones inside the kidney by entering from the distal end of the urinary tract with a camera system and light optical imaging device) is increasingly used today thanks to the developments in laser and scope (imaging device) technology. The risk of complications (unexpected situations) after this surgery is reported as 9-25%, most of which are infections. These infections can be severe conditions that can lead to septic shock (system failure due to severe infection) and death, as well as fever requiring only antipyretics (fever reducers).

Preventing infectious complications is as important as ensuring stone-free status for this surgery. For this purpose, surgery must be performed under sterile (microbe-free) urine culture. Patients with positive urine cultures should be taken to surgery due to increased pressure on the kidney, which can cause reflux (backflow of the kidney into the bloodstream) and infectious urine entering the circulation, leading to septicemia (microbes mixing into the bloodstream).

There are guideline recommendations regarding sterile urine culture reporting, but it is not clear how long in advance it should be taken. In the American Urology guidelines, a sterile urine culture within 1 month is sufficient to be taken to surgery, but no period is specified in the European Urology guidelines. The possibility of the patient becoming infected again during the period leading up to surgery is a condition that needs to be determined. Therefore, the culture taken before surgery should be compared with the urine culture result taken at the latest possible period before the operation. This study aims to evaluate the preoperative and morning urine culture results and compare the postoperative results of patients with this difference.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-12
• Study Start: 2024-12-01
• Study First Submitted: 2024-12-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-12-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-12-07
• Study First Posted: 2024-12-09
• Last Update Posted: 2024-12-12
• Primary Completion: 2025-12-31
• Study Completion: 2025-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1000

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients over 18 years of age
• Patients who had a urine culture taken 2 weeks before the operation and reported as sterile

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients under 18 years of age
• Patients without sufficient data
• Patients with a urine culture more than 2 weeks before retrograde intrarenal -surgery
• Patients with a positive urine culture before retrograde intrarenal surgery
• Patients with renal anatomic anomalies
• Patients with a solitary (single) kidney

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Postoperative infection rates	within 2 weeks after the surgery	Is there a difference in postoperative infectious complications between patients with two sterile preoperative urine cultures and patients with sterile cultures 2 weeks before the operation but positive urine cultures taken on the morning of the operation?

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tekirdag Namık Kemal University; 🇹🇷 Tekirdağ, Turkey