Open AccessRECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT OF NON COMPLICATED URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN ADULTS
Author(s) -
L Cersosimo,
F. Catanzaro,
E Imparato,
Michele Meschìa,
T. Mazzei,
Giulia Nicoletti,
Giovanni Fadda,
G. C. Schito
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
urogynaecologia international journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2038-8314
pISSN - 1121-3086
DOI - 10.4081/uij.2003.103
Subject(s) - urinary system , medicine , disease , genitourinary system , population , gastrointestinal tract , intensive care medicine , physiology , environmental health
Non complicated acute urinary tract infections (UTI) are among the most common bacterial diseases in the human species. More than 150 million UTIs (non complicated/complicated) are, in fact, annually diagnosed and treated worlwide (Sobel Kaye, 1990; Stamm and Hooton, 1993; Stamm, 1998; Stamm and Norrby, 2001; Foxman, 2002). UTI include cystitis and pyelonephritis (the latter is not discussed in this paper) that occur in individuals without morphological-functional alterations of the excretory tract. This disease is more common in female and/or in menopause patients. 25-50% of the individuals in this population, aged between 20 and 40 years, can be affected by UTI at least once in a lifetime and can be prone to more or less frequent relapses. (Johnson, 1998; Stamm, 2001). Male subjects are less frequently affected by UTI, but when affected, they experience more serious episodes often representing a warning signal of anatomical alterations of the urinary apparatus or the presence of risk factors