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Urinary tract infections in men

Última revisão: 10 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 26 Feb 2025

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • dysuria
  • urgency
  • frequency
  • suprapubic pain
  • costovertebral angle pain
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • hesitancy
  • nocturia
  • enlarged prostate
  • tender prostate
  • rectal/perineal pain
  • fever/rigors
  • urethral discharge
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Fatores de risco

  • benign prostatic hypertrophy
  • urinary tract stones
  • urologic surgery, instrumentation
  • urethral strictures
  • age >50
  • previous UTI
  • catheterization
  • anal sex
  • vaginal sex
  • recent hospitalization
  • uncircumcised
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • dipstick urinalysis (U/A)
  • urine microscopy
  • urine culture
  • Gram stain
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • CT renal tract
  • ultrasound
  • plain x-ray kidneys, ureters, and bladder (KUB)
  • intravenous urogram (IVU)
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Algoritmo de tratamento

Inicial

asymptomatic bacteriuria before urologic procedure

AGUDA

not severe and tolerating oral therapy

severe or not tolerating oral therapy

Colaboradores

Autores

Timothy J. Benton, MD
Timothy J. Benton

Regional Chairman

Residency Program Director

Associate Professor

Department of Family and Community Medicine

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Permian Basin Campus

Odessa

TX

Declarações

TJB declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Catherine DuBeau, MD

Professor of Medicine

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon

NH

Declarações

CD is a member of the American Geriatrics Society Revision Panel for the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medications in older persons; planning committee, speaker, and manuscript co-author for the American Urogynecological Association State of the Science on OAB and cognition; and co-investigator, RELIEF trial (botulinum toxin for refractory overactive bladder in older women, funded by PCORI.

Richard Viken, MD

Professor of Family Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine

University of Texas Health Sciences Center

Tyler

TX

Declarações

RV declares that he has no competing interests.

Robert Pickard, MD, FRCS (Urol)

Professor of Urology

Institute of Cellular Medicine

Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne

UK

Declarações

RP declares that he has no competing interests.

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Principais artigos

Nicolle LE, Gupta K, Bradley SF, et al. Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: 2019 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 May 2;68(10):e83-e110.Texto completo  Resumo

Kranz J, Bartoletti R, Bruyère F, et al. European Association of urology guidelines on urological infections: summary of the 2024 guidelines. Eur Urol. 2024 Jul;86(1):27-41.Texto completo  Resumo

European Association of Urology. Guidelines on urological infections. Apr 2024 [internet publication].Texto completo

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