Therapeutic strategies for uncomplicated cystitis in women.

Uncomplicated cystitis is affecting many women of all ages and has a great impact on the quality of life, especially in women suffering from recurrent, uncomplicated cystitis. By far the most frequent uropathogen, , may have acquired increasing resistance against a variety of oral antibiotics, which may differ between countries and regions. Therefore, local resistance data are important to be considered.

Linguistic and Clinical Validation of the Tajik Acute Cystitis Symptom Score for Diagnosis and Patient-Reported Outcome in Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis.

: Acute Cystitis Symptom Score (ACSS) is a self-reporting questionnaire for clinical diagnosis and follow-up of acute uncomplicated cystitis (AC) in women. The ACSS, originally developed in Uzbek and Russian, both considered original languages, is now available in several other languages. This study aimed to translate and validate the ACSS in the Tajik language.

Linguistic and clinical validation of the Turkish version of Acute Cystitis Symptom Score for the diagnosis and patient-reported outcome in acute uncomplicated cystitis.

Purpose: The Acute Cystitis Symptom Score (ACSS) was developed as a self-reporting questionnaire for diagnosing and monitoring acute uncomplicated cystitis (AC) in female patients. The study aims at the translation of the ACSS into Turkish from the original Uzbek including its linguistic, cognitive and clinical validation.

Materials And Methods: After forward and backward translation of the ACSS from Uzbek to Turkish and vice versa, the cognitive assessment of the Turkish ACSS was performed on 12 female subjects to achieve the final study version.

[Prostate biopsy-infection prophylaxis and patient preparation].

Prostate biopsy has been at the center of controversy in recent years due to high infection complications associated with the transrectal route and the withdrawal of authorization for fluoroquinolones and fosfomycin trometemol as prophylaxis. The Urological Infections Guideline Group of the European Association of Urology (EAU) recently published a meta-analysis in two parts based on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and annually updates the data for the EAU guidelines. The meta-analyses show that transperineal prostate biopsy is associated with significantly fewer infectious complications than transrectal biopsy and should therefore be preferred.