Midstream Urine Culture Had a Higher Predictive Value of Post-PNL SIRS in Patients Without Upper Urinary Tract Obstruction

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<h4>Introduction: </h4> Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a common complication of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL). Midstream urine culture (MUC) is reported to be associated with postoperative SIRS, but this correlation is uncertain, as MUC may not represent infection of obstructed urine in patients with upper urinary tract obstruction (UUTO). Instead, for patients without UUTO, positive MUC ma...

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Literature Corpus work

64ed7830-f5c9-5f94-a8ca-fc583e158d27

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-1062381/v1