title: Unheralded urinary tract infection in the male. A clinical and urodynamic assessment.
abstract: Fifty adult males presenting with unheralded single or recurrent urinary tract infections, but without prior urinary symptoms or disorders, were investigated by appropriate urodynamic techniques. Pressure/flow videocystography revealed significant underlying lower urinary tract abnormalities in 40 cases (80%) compared with only 11 (22%) whose abnormalities were also demonstrated by standard intravenous urography or endoscopy. We suggest that videocystography is the most efficient diagnostic procedure for these cases in a specialist unit but recommended the intravenous urodynamogram as a simpler screening test for general use.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014524:Urethral Obstruction / Q000150:complications; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D014563:Urodynamics; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000150:complications