@article{TAU4395,
author = {Thomas Chi and Eric Taylor and Marshall Stoller},
title = {Looking beyond the guidelines for perioperative antibiotics in nephrolithiasis},
journal = {Translational Andrology and Urology},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
year = {2014},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Establishing guidelines for the use of perioperatively antibiotics for patients being treated for urinary stone disease presents a particularly challenging clinical issue. Nephrolithiasis patients represent a variety of etiologies, from obstructive to infectious stones, and their treatment ranges from practically non-invasive in the form of extracorporeal shockwave therapy to relatively invasive with percutaneous approaches. In addition, within each procedure type, there is a large gradation in level of associated morbidity—a ureteroscopy with a basket stone extraction for a distal 5 mm stone likely represents a much different infectious risk compared to a ureteroscopy with laser lithotripsy for a proximal 1 cm ureteral stone requiring ureteral orifice dilation along with access sheath placement.},
issn = {2223-4691}, url = {https://tau.amegroups.org/article/view/4395}
}