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Female Urethral Stricture

Female Urethral Strictures are a rare cause of slow flow in women. Other symptoms of urethral sticture in women may be pain in urethral passage, need to change position during voiding, feeling of incomplete urination and repeated infections.Causes of urethral stricture in women can be urethral infection, aggressive urethral dilatation, pelvic radiation. Because they are treatable (urethral dilatation is the […]

All positive Urine Cultures in a catheterised patient do not require antibiotic therapy

There is a difference between shedding of bacteria in urine (bacteriuria) and actual urine infection.

In a catheterised patient, mere presence of bacteria in urine which is shown as a positive urine culture report without any urinary symptoms or change in urinary symptoms is usually not infection. After catheterisation the probability of getting positive urine culture increases by 10% every day. In effect, …