Antibiotic Prophylaxis When Removing Ureteric Stent After Stone Surgery

Tor Erik Sand

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Ureteric Stent After Stone Surgery

Treatments: Drug: Trimetoprim-Sulfa (Bactrim); Other: No antibiotics

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01768364

2012/953

Details and patient eligibility

About

Is there anything to gain in giving antibiotics as prophylaxis when removing ureteric stents cystoscopically after stone surgery?

Full description

Many patients undergoing stone surgery receive a ureteric stent that should be removed after 14 days. This stent is removed cystoscopically and today this is done without giving antibiotics. Some patients get urinary tract infections subject to this. However the investigators do not know how many of these patients get UTI as most are followed by their primary care doctor. With this study the investigators would like to find out whether it is possible to avoid such infections and also find out how many actually do get infected.

Enrollment: 124 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• stone surgery patients with ureteric stent that should be removed after 14 days

Exclusion criteria

• ongoing antibiotic treatment, allergy to trimetoprim-sulfa

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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124 participants in 2 patient groups

Antibiotics

Active Comparator group

Description:

will receive antibiotics

Treatment:

Drug: Trimetoprim-Sulfa (Bactrim)

No antibiotics

Active Comparator group

Description:

will not receive antibiotics

Treatment:

Other: No antibiotics