Infection Among Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy.

Pomeranian Medical University Szczecin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cystostomy Infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03290742

INF1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators plan to perform a review of medical records a single urology department to identify patients with febrile perioperative infection who underwent radical cystectomy and urinary diversion for bladder cancer from January 2014 to July 2017.

Investigators plan assess a potential variables to find correlation with infections after surgery.

Characteristics, including age, sex, length of hospital stay, body mass index (BMI), diabetes, hypertension, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), preoperative hydronephrosis, smoking status, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, pathological stage, lymph node involvement, types of urinary diversion, operative method (open/laparoscopic), operative time and receipt of a perioperative blood transfusion (PBT) will be asses as potential risk factor for perioperative infection.

Enrollment: 133 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who underwent radical cystectomy and urinary diversion for bladder cancer.

Exclusion criteria

• documented infection at the time of radical cystectomy
• concurrent organ resection such as nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy
• partial cystectomy

Trial design

133 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients without documented infection.

Description:

Patients without infection during 30 day follow-up after radical cystectomy.

Patients with documented infection.

Description:

Patients with documented any kind of infection (urinary tract infection, blood infection/septic shock, surgical site infection) during 30 day follow-up after radical cystectomy.