Antibiotic prophylaxis in percutaneous nephrolithotomy: prospective study in 81 patients.

Purpose: To compare single-dose and short-course antibiotic prophylaxis protocols in percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

Patients And Methods: Eighty-one patients with sterile urine preoperatively who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy were divided into two groups. The first group (N = 43) received a single intravenous dose of antibiotic (200 mg of ofloxacin) during anesthetic induction, and the second group (N = 38) received treatment doses of antibiotic (400 mg of ofloxacin per day) until the nephrostomy catheter was removed.

Oral potassium citrate treatment for idiopathic hypocitruria in children with calcium urolithiasis.

Purpose: We evaluated the clinical and laboratory outcome of oral potassium citrate treatment in children with idiopathic hypocitruria and calcium stones.

Materials And Methods: The charts of 64 children 1 to 15 years old with hypocitruria and calcium stones (median age 7.2) treated with oral potassium citrate were reviewed.

Determination of prognosis in patients with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy: prognostic value of CD44v6 score.

Purpose: A third of the patients treated with radical prostatectomy experience progression even when tumors are confined pathologically to the prostate. CD44 may be a promising prognostic marker for determining malignant potential. However, there has not been a standard scoring system because of its heterogeneous staining pattern.