Abstract Background: Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is considered the reference surgical method of treating benign prostatic enlargement (BPE) causing obstruction. The procedure still carries a significant risk of perioperative morbidity according to previous reports. The aim of the present study was to disclose complications after TURP undertaken in routine clinical practice at a non-academic center. Methods: All patients with BPE submitted to TURP from January 2010 to December 2012 were evaluated for complications occurring during hospital stay, after discharge up to the end of the third post-operative month and finally for any late endourological re-interventions undertaken up to five years after TURP. All complications were graded according to the Clavien-Dindo system. Results: In total, 354 men underwent a TURP during the study period. In total, 47% had pre-operative urinary retention. Significant co-morbidity was seen in 17% of men (ASA III–IV). Spinal anaesthesia was applied to 312 men (88%). During hospital stay, major complications, graded as Clavien-Dindo ≥ III, was seen in only eight men (2.3%). Minor complications occurred in 91 men (26%). Between hospital discharge and follow-up visit major complications were noted in 12 men (3.4%). Minor complications occurred in 79 men (22%). The only factor that was associated with an increased risk of a major complication was general anaesthesia. Late complications, requiring an endourological re-intervention, occurred in 30 men (9.7%). Conclusion: TUR-P in routine clinical practice was associated with a low incidence of severe complications. TUR syndrome was very rare. Within five years a small proportion of men require the transurethral intervention to be redone.

Background: Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is the reference standard surgical treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) related to benign prostatic enlargement. The aim of this study was to investigate the response rate following TURP in two distinctly different patient categories; men with bothersome LUTS and men in urinary retention (UR) requiring catheterisation. Methods: In total, 355 men underwent TURP due to LUTS or UR. Responders in the LUTS group were defined as having an International Prostate Symptom Score <= 7 or >50% loss compared to baseline, a Q(max) >= 15 mL/s or >50% gain compared to baseline, a post-void residual <= 100 mL or a bother score <= 2. Patients fulfilling at least one out of the four criteria were defined as responders. In the UR group, responders were defined as being catheter-free at follow-up. Results: In total, 337 men remained for final analysis. The proportion operated on due to UR was 46%. In men with LUTS, the response rate was 95%. One in four were classified as excellent responders, fulfilling all four outcome criteria. Men with UR had a successful removal of the catheter after TURP prior to discharge in 77% of the cases and an additional 6% within 3 months, yielding a total response rate of 83%. Conclusion: TURP is a successful procedure in men with bothersome LUTS and in men with UR. Considering the difference regarding voiding outcomes in men operated on due to LUTS or UR, these groups should be analysed separately in future studies comparing TURP against newer treatment modalities.

OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of the chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) among middle-aged men in a region with a temperate climate, i.e. a community in western Sweden.MATERIAL AND METHODS:Men aged 40-69 years who, on the basis of postal invitation, volunteered to participate in a study regarding erectile dysfunction as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, were asked also to complete the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI).RESULTS:In total, 459 of 900 men responded to the invitation. CP/CPPS-like symptoms, i.e. perineal and/or ejaculatory pain and an NIH-CPSI pain score of 4 or greater, were reported by 23 men (5%). More severe symptoms, with a pain score of at least 8 and perineal and/or ejaculatory pain, were reported by 15 men (3.3%).CONCLUSIONS:In this cross-sectional population-based study 5% had NIH-CPSI scores suggestive of CP/CPPS, which is in the lower range compared with studies from other regions, refuting the idea that CP/CPPS should be more common in regions with a temperate climate.

OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to identify changes in inflammatory molecules in the blood (plasma) of patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic syndrome (CP/CPPS) compared with controls. Altered levels indicate a systemic component by possible involvement of the prostate and/or the inner pelvic floor musculature.MATERIAL AND METHODS:In 32 patients with CP/CPPS and 37 controls, blood plasma levels of testosterone, macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), TNF-β, interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IL-1β were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Cortisol in saliva samples was measured in the morning and late evening. All participants answered a questionnaire regarding their health profile.RESULTS:Significantly higher levels of MIF (p = 0.012) were detected in patients. The testosterone level was, contrary to other studies, little lower in patients (p = 0.014; age adjusted). When controls with health issues and patients with a parallel disease were excluded, the MIF and TNF-α levels were higher in the patients (p = 0.007, p = 0.016, respectively) than in controls, and the testosterone was slightly lower in patients (p = 0.047).CONCLUSIONS:The findings show an immune response extending to the circulatory system, in which MIF makes a significant contribution to CP/CPPS. This study also indicates TNF-α as a circulatory component when excluding subjects with concomitant diseases. Both MIF and TNF-α have previously been highlighted for other diseases related to chronic pain and here also for CP/CPPS. These results provide further insights into the immunological basis of CP/CPPS.

Background: Perioperative procedures in children can impair their emotional status negatively with stress and/or anxiety. Cortisol concentrations and drawings could be helpful in gaining information about a child's levels of stress and/or anxiety when attending the hospital for surgeryPurpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of anxiety and stress as well as to explore the association between objective measures of stress (cortisol concentration in saliva) and subjective assessment of hospital anxiety (children's drawings) as interpreted by the Swedish version of the Child Drawing: Hospital manual.Methods: A total of 93 children scheduled for day surgery were included. Salivary cortisol was sampled preoperatively on the day of surgery at which time the children were also requested to make a drawing of a person at the hospital.Results: Results showed no association between salivary cortisol concentration and the CD:H score.Conclusion: The drawings and salivary cortisol concentration preoperatively on the day of surgery reflect different components of the conditions of feat; anxiety, or stress emerging in the situation.

Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome : Interplay of inflammatory mediators, "Beyond the Abstract"

Abstract Objective. There are indications suggesting that the pain associated with the chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) may be related to cold. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate how the symptom intensity reported by the patient relates to the time of the year in a temperate climate, i.e. to the ambient temperature and to weather changes. Material and methods. Thirty-one patients, mean age 51 years (range 35–66 years), with CPPS for 17 ± 10 years (3–42 years) were asked to complete a set of questionnaires including questions concerning how they experienced their symptom intensity during the different seasons using the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) questionnaire. Results. The total NIH-CPSI score was 22.2 ± 8.2. There was a highly marked relationship between season and pain intensity as reported by the informants: it was experienced to be three times more intense during the winter months. All subjects reported that a temperature drop was associated with deterioration. Conclusion. The strong relationship between the ambient temperature, a drop in temperature and the pain experienced by men with CPPS confirms the association between cold and symptom intensity in the Scandinavian countries, where the seasonal temperature variation spans a long range and the winters are long. The cause of this relationship is still to be established. Muscular spasm/stiffness is a possibility that remains to be explored.

OBJECTIVE:Approximately 8% of nursing home patients in Sweden have a long-term indwelling catheter. A catheter requires daily care and regular changes (basic care). Beyond this, significant numbers of patients are troubled by frequent complications necessitating acute catheter changes and/or rinses. The aim of this study was to calculate the costs associated with long-term indwelling catheters among patients at nursing homes.MATERIAL AND METHODS:All 366 patients with indwelling urinary catheters at 78 nursing homes were followed prospectively for 1 year and all catheter-related procedures, rinses, and changes were registered and the costs of the procedures calculated.RESULTS:The basic cost was calculated to be SEK 1157 per month and patient. The average monthly cost for acute interventions was estimated to range from SEK 169 in the quartile with few such events up to SEK 455 in the quartile with frequent acute interventions. Personnel accounted for over 90% of the costs associated with indwelling catheters.CONCLUSIONS:Basic catheter care was more cost intensive than acute interventions. This applied even for the 25% of subjects frequently troubled by complications requiring acute catheter changes or rinses. The cost of the catheters and material used in connection with catheter rinses/irrigations was low compared with the cost of the personnel undertaking the procedures.

OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to evaluate the presence and importance of pain catastrophizing among men diagnosed with chronic abacterial prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) in a routine clinical setting.MATERIAL AND METHODS:61 men, mean age 46 ± 11 years, with a mean CP/CPPS history of 11 ± 11 years, completed the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI), Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) and Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) to evaluate pain catastrophizing, and the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5). They were also scored according to the UPOINT system.RESULTS:The patients' mean scores were: IEEF-5 17.6 ± 7.3, NIH-CPSI pain subscale 11.1 ± 4.4, quality of life question 2.7 ± 1.6, quality of life impact subscale 6.9 ± 2.7 and CSQ catastrophizing score 15.3 ± 9.1. Patients with a high tendency for catastrophizing (CSQ score ≥20) (28%) had higher UPOINT and pain scores, worse quality of life and quality of life impact, but did not stand out regarding voiding dysfunction and ejaculatory pain.CONCLUSIONS:Two distinctly different cohorts could be identified: a smaller cohort with a high degree of catastrophizing, severe pain and poor quality of life, and a larger one with a low degree of catastrophizing, less severe pain and moderately reduced quality of life. It is important in clinical practice to distinguish between the two groups since they require different therapeutic approaches.

AIMThis paper is a report of psychometric testing of the Swedish version of the Child Drawing: Hospital Manual.BACKGROUNDDrawings have shown to be useful in assessing emotional status and anxiety in children because they generally speak to us more clearly and openly through their drawings than they are willing or able to verbally.METHODThe Child Drawing: Hospital Manual was translated into Swedish according to World Health Organization guidelines (a routine procedure for translation of English instruments) in order to assess anxiety by analysing the drawings of 59 children (5-11 years), of whom nine were girls and 50 boys undergoing day surgery during 2007-2009.RESULTSInter-rater reliability (five independent scorers) was high and internal consistency reliability was good (coefficient alpha =0·77). Parts A and C, as well as the total scale score of the Child Drawing: Hospital Manual, discriminated anxiety significantly between the group of children undergoing day surgery and a comparison group of school children, indicating adequate construct validity.CONCLUSIONFor the Swedish version of the Child Drawing: Hospital Manual, our study demonstrates evidence for adequate construct validity in Parts A and C (and total scale score), high inter-rater reliability and acceptable internal consistency reliability. However, some improvements are needed before the instrument will be a clinically useful assessment of anxiety in children undergoing day surgery.

Summary Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of ‘the perioperative dialogue (PD)’ by analyzing salivary cortisol, in 5‐ to 11‐year‐old children undergoing day surgery. Background: To deal with anxiety prior to investigations and/or procedures, children need to be confident and informed about what is going to happen. Therefore, intervention strategies should be initiated before admission to hospital. Methods and materials: Children ( n = 93), 79 boys and 14 girls, scheduled for elective day surgery requiring general anesthesia were randomly recruited into three groups: (i) standard perioperative care ( n = 31), (ii) standard perioperative care including preoperative information ( n = 31), and (iii) the PD ( n = 31). Saliva was sampled for cortisol analysis at specific time points during the pre‐ and perioperative procedures. Results: The children who received the PD had significantly lower ( P = 0.003) salivary cortisol concentrations postoperatively. Moreover, it continuously decreased during the day of surgery compared with the other two groups ( P < 0.01). Among the children who received analgesics, the PD group received significantly less morphine ( P = 0.014) related to bodyweight: the mean dose was 0.1 mg·kg −1 ( n = 9) in the control group vs 0.04 mg·kg −1 ( n = 6) in the PD group. Irrespective of group, there was a positive correlation between the children’s morphine consumption and salivary cortisol concentration ( r = 0.56; P = 0.038). The W‐B scale score was higher in the group that received morphine (median = 3 vs median=1; P = 0.001). Conclusions: The PD’s caring, continuity, and on‐going dialogues were associated with low concentrations of salivary cortisol postoperatively and reduced morphine consumption and thus appears to be a valuable complement to standard perioperative care in children undergoing day surgery.

OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were to register the incidence of scheduled and acute urinary catheter changes and rinses (acute interventions) among nursing home patients, to relate the incidence of acute interventions to catheter material and time of catheterization, and to register the use of antibiotics for catheter-associated urinary tract infections.MATERIAL AND METHODS:Catheter life and catheter-related interventions were followed prospectively for 1 year in all patients with long-term indwelling catheters in all 78 nursing homes in a county in western Sweden.RESULTS:Altogether, 366 patients were followed: 117 (32%) women and 249 (68%) men. Acute changes (n = 718) were more common than scheduled ones (n = 519). The rate of acute interventions was not related to catheter material and was significantly lower in patients with a catheter for over 2 years. In 25% of the patients, acute interventions were virtually never necessary, in contrast to 10% where acute interventions were registered nearly every month. Antibiotic treatment for reasons assumed to be related to the urinary tract was instituted on 170 occasions among 85 men (34%) and 20 women (17%), a significant difference between the genders (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS; No catheter material appeared to be superior. The surprising finding that acute interventions were less common after 2 years' catheterization needs further study to be verified and explained. Only 10-25% had a more frequent need for acute interventions and are candidates for future interventional studies.

Objectives. To survey the bacterial flora and antibiotic resistance in urinary strains from patients with indwelling bladder catheters residing in nursing homes within a geographically defined region. Material and methods. Urine was sampled for culture from 163 catheter patients (126 men and 37 women) during a 2 week period in March 2010. Susceptibility testing of the isolated bacteria was compared with all urinary strains (n = 9994) from hospitals and primary healthcare in the same geographical area cultured during the first 6 months of 2010 (control group). Results. Bacteriuria was found in 159 of 163 urine samples (98%). Enterococcus faecalis and Escherichia coli were the most common species, one or both being detected in 72% of the urine samples, while Proteus species were found in10% and a single isolate of Providentia species was seen. Strains in the study patients were more resistant to antibiotics than in the control group. Particularly large differences were noted for ciprofloxacinin in E. coli (16.9% vs 7.9%) and for trimethoprim- sulfamethoxazole in E. faecalis (39.1% vs 24.8%). One extended spectrum beta- lactamase (ESBL)- producing E. coli was cultured (1.3%), compared with 1.6% in the control group. No vancomycin- resistant enterococci (VRE) or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were detected. Conclusions. Proteus mirabilis and Providentia species were rarely isolated, in sharp contrast to previous studies from geriatric hospital wards where they have often been in the majority. The limited incidence of ESBL and the absence of VRE and MRSA is gratifying, but the high resistance to antibiotics needs to be assessed on a continuous basis.

OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and clinical presentation in patients with hospital admission owing to febrile infections after transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The case histories of the 57 patients (3.5%) who, between January 2006 and December 2009, were admitted owing to a febrile infection secondary to the 1633 transrectal prostate biopsies performed during the period were retrospectively analysed. Norfloxacin 400 mg ? 2 was given for 3 days as prophylaxis starting just before or within 10 min of biopsy. RESULTS:Quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli was isolated from blood cultures in 43% of the patients (n = 15) presenting with fever between 24 and 48 h postbiopsy. The urine culture was positive in 13% and no patient had symptoms suggestive of a urinary tract infection (UTI). In patients presenting after 48 h (n = 42), quinolone-resistant E. coli was never isolated from blood; E. coli was cultured from urine in 45% of the patients and in 48% it was associated with UTI symptoms. CONCLUSIONS:The finding that early postbiopsy fever was often associated with a quinolone-resistant E. coli bacteraemia and never with UTI symptoms, as opposed to late-onset fever, where such symptoms were common and quinolone-resistant E. coli was rarely detected, suggests divergent pathogenic mechanisms underpinning early- and late-onset febrile reactions. These findings have implications for how antibiotic prophylaxis should be given.

Objective. The aim of this study was to register the use of long-term indwelling catheters in nursing homes in a defined geographical region, and present the indications for and duration of catheterization, catheter material and size, the time between the regular catheter changes and the number of patients with regular catheter rinses. Material and methods. On 16 February 2009, the 78 nursing homes in a county in western Sweden with 260 000 inhabitants reported the required information to the study centre. Results. Of the 2625 nursing home patients (1781 women and 844 men), 50 (3%) of the women (mean age 88 years) and 135 (16%) of the men (mean age 85 years) had indwelling catheters. Urine retention and high residual urine were the most common indications (79%). Incontinence (6%) was rarely the reason. The men had been catheterized much longer (mean +/- SD 32 +/- 29 months) than the women (20 +/- 19 months). Regular bladder catheter rinses were used in 51 patients (28%). Conclusion. Seven per cent of nursing home patients in the region had an indwelling catheter, the men five times more often than the women. The main indication for both genders was insufficient bladder emptying, and rarely incontinence. The men had been catheterized for much longer periods than the women and more often arrived at the nursing home with a long-term indwelling catheter.