Peritoneal Dialysis Penetration and Peritonitis Rate at a Single Centre during Last Decade.

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has been intensively offered at our centre to patients (pts) with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) from 2000, and the number of PD pts was noticed to raise. We aimed to analyse the PD population from the aspect of penetration and peritonitis rate during eleven years. Cumulative number of new RRT pts was 378 during the study period.

Anaerobic seminal fluid micro-flora in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome patients.

We investigated the seminal micro-flora of 116 men. Eighty-four men had chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), and 34 of them were also leukocytospermic. Thirty-two asymptomatic men formed the control group.

The comparison of susceptibility patterns of Gram-negative invasive and non-invasive pathogens in Estonian hospitals.

A total of 560 invasive and 1062 non-invasive isolates were collected. The antimicrobial susceptibility of invasive versus non-invasive Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates were evaluated using the E-tests. The equal domination of Gram-negative among both invasive and non-invasive pathogens was estimated in our study if contaminants were excluded.

The limit of leucocytospermia from the microbiological viewpoint.

The aim of the study was to find out the correlation between white blood cell (WBC) counts in semen and quantitative composition of seminal microflora, and to establish the minimum WBC count associated with significant bacteriospermia. The research included 159 men with different WBC counts in their semen, 84 of them with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Semen samples were cultivated quantitatively for detecting anaerobic, microaerophilic and aerobic bacteria.