Cystostomy Infection Clinical Trial
Official title:
Incidence of and Risk Factors for Perioperative Infection Among Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy
Investigators plan to perform a review of medical records a single urology department to
identify patients with febrile perioperative infection who underwent radical cystectomy and
urinary diversion for bladder cancer from January 2014 to July 2017.
Investigators plan assess a potential variables to find correlation with infections after
surgery.
Characteristics, including age, sex, length of hospital stay, body mass index (BMI),
diabetes, hypertension, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), preoperative
hydronephrosis, smoking status, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, pathological stage, lymph node
involvement, types of urinary diversion, operative method (open/laparoscopic), operative time
and receipt of a perioperative blood transfusion (PBT) will be asses as potential risk factor
for perioperative infection.
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