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Mohee AR, Gascoyne-Binzi D, West R, Bhattarai S, Eardley I, Sandoe JA. Bacteraemia during Transurethral Resection of the Prostate: What Are the Risk Factors and Is It More Common than We Think?. PLoS One. 2016;11(7):e0157864. Published 2016 Jul 8.

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Infective Endocarditis Following TURP Procedures: A Case Report and Review of Literature

1SUNY Downstate Medical Center, United States

2Kings County Hospital Center


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2020, Vol. 8 No. 10, 370-373
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-8-10-14
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Evan Botti, Filip Oleszak, Michelle Likhtshteyn, Andreii Maryniak, Mohammed Rahman. Infective Endocarditis Following TURP Procedures: A Case Report and Review of Literature. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2020; 8(10):370-373. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-8-10-14.

Correspondence to: Filip  Oleszak, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, United States. Email: evan.botti@downstate.edu

Abstract

A common treatment and management of BPH is transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) with at least 150,000 TURPs performed per year in the United States. Rates of bacteremia following TURP can be as low as 1% when antimicrobial prophylaxis is given. Patients can develop many common sequelae as a result of bacteremia secondary to TURP including bacteriuria and urinary tract infection; however, more serious complications such as endocarditis are quite rare (~1 in 4200 cases). Here we present a case of a 67 year-old-male with BPH who underwent two TURP procedures; both with appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis who was subsequently diagnosed with endocarditis

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