ReviewNature reviews. Urology2013
Risk factors for sepsis after percutaneous renal stone surgery.
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103 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 206 citations in OpenAlex.
- Stone culture, bladder or pelvic urine culture: the most helpful tool for an endourologist - a review of literature from EAU section of endourology.World journal of urology · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical significance of stone culture during endourological procedures in predicting post-operative urinary sepsis: should it be a standard of care-evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis from EAU section of Urolithiasis (EULIS).World journal of urology · 2024Pooled it
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- Intelligent pressure-controlled retrograde intrarenal surgery versus microchannel percutaneous nephrolithotomy to treat 2-3 cm renal calculi.Urolithiasis · 2025Trial
- Super-mini PCNL (SMP) with suction versus standard PCNL for the management of renal calculi of 1.5 cm-3 cm: a randomized controlled study from a university teaching hospital.World journal of urology · 2024Trial
- A randomised controlled trial comparing two protocols of preoperative antibiotics in patients with positive urine culture undergoing percutaneous nephrolithotomy.World journal of urology · 2023Trial
- Perioperative and long-term results of retroperitoneal laparoscopic pyelolithotomy versus percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn calculi: a single-center randomized controlled trial.World journal of urology · 2019Trial
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- Discordance between preoperative urine culture and intraoperative stone/pelvis culture as a predictor of post-PCNL sepsis: a single-center retrospective analysis for targeted antibiotic stewardship.International urology and nephrology · 2026Article
- A parsimonious preoperative prediction model for postoperative sepsis following upper urinary tract calculi surgery.Urolithiasis · 2026Article
- Association between intraoperative low renal pelvic pressure time and postoperative infectious complications after percutaneous nephrolithotomy: a single-centre retrospective cohort study.World journal of urology · 2026Article
- Comparison of preoperative and intraoperative cultures for predicting postoperative urinary tract infections following supine PCNL.World journal of urology · 2026Article
- Can dynamic changes in preoperative urinary white blood cells and nitrite predict infectious complications after percutaneous nephrolithotomy in culture-positive patients?World journal of urology · 2026Observational
- In vivo evaluation of the outflow pattern of pediatric nephroscope with various access sheaths.Urolithiasis · 2025Article
- A novel preoperative risk score for predicting Urosepsis after percutaneous nephrolithotomy: validation and clinical application.Urolithiasis · 2025Article
- The predictive value of perirenal fat thickness in systemic inflammatory response syndrome after percutaneous nephrolithotomy.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Study on the diagnostic efficacy of the computerized tomography attenuation value of renal pelvis urine in true bacteriuria secondary to renal and ureteral stones.Renal failure · 2025Article
- Complete duplex ureter with ureterocele and multiple large stones in the lower ureter: a case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2025Article
- Contralateral knee-flexion prone split-leg percutaneous nephrolithotomy: A versatile technique.Asian journal of urology · 2025Article
- Predicting postoperative fever in culture-negative patients undergoing mini-PCNL using MAP score-augmented machine learning: a retrospective cohort study.World journal of urology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Since its introduction into the endourologist's armamentarium almost 40 years ago, percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) has become the standard of care for patients with large-volume nephrolithiasis. Postoperative infection is one of the most common complications of the procedure, and postoperative sepsis is one of the most detrimental. A number of factors have been found to increase the risk of postoperative sepsis. These include patient characteristics that are known preoperatively, such as urine culture obtained from the bladder or from the renal pelvis if percutaneous access to the renal pelvis is obtained in advance to the procedure. Neurogenic bladder dysfunction secondary to spinal cord injury and anatomical renal abnormalities, such as pelvicalyceal dilatation, have also been associated with increased incidence of fever and sepsis after the procedure. Several intraoperative factors, such as the average renal pressure sustained during PCNL and the operative time, also seem to increase the risk of sepsis. Finally, the contribution of postoperative factors, such as presence of a nephrostomy tube or a urethral catheter, has also been investigated. A short preoperative course of antibiotics has been found to significantly decrease the rate of postoperative fever and sepsis. Novel agents targeted at sepsis prevention and treatment, such as anti-endotoxin antibodies and cholesterol-lowering drugs statins, are currently under investigation.
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