Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in patients with spinal cord injury: effect of methenamine

K Banovac, N Wade, F Gonzalez, B Walsh… - The Journal of The …, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
This study was designed to determine the effect of methenamine on the frequency of urinary
tract infections (UTI) in hospitalized patients after spinal cord injury. The study included 56 …

Bacteriuria during follow-up in patients with spinal cord injury: II Efficacy of antimicrobial suppressants.

JL Merritt, RP Erickson, JL Opitz - Archives of Physical Medicine …, 1982 - europepmc.org
Data from serial follow-up evaluations of 103 patients with traumatic or atraumatic
myelopathy were recorded to determine rates significant bacteriuria in groups using different …

Lack of effect of methenamine in suppression of, or prophylaxis against, chronic urinary infection

B Vainrub, DM Musher - Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1977 - Am Soc Microbiol
Methenamine is frequently prescribed for patients who have chronic urinary infection to
suppress bacterial growth during active infection or to prevent recurrence once an infection …

Prevention of urinary tract infection during intermittent catheterization

M Krebs, RB Halvorsen, IJ Fishman… - The Journal of …, 1984 - Elsevier
We studied prospectively 40 patients with recent spinal cord injuries to determine the
effectiveness of the combination of oral methenamine and an intravesicular acidifying agent …

Urinary tract infection in spinal cord injury

SL Stover, LK Lloyd, KB Waites, AB Jackson - Archives of physical …, 1989 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Stover SL, Lloyd LK, Waites KB, Jackson AB: Urinary tract infection in spinal
cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 70: 47–54, 1989.• Loss of normal bladder function …

Bacteriuria during follow-up in patients with spinal cord injury: I. Rates of bacteriuria in various bladder-emptying methods.

RP Erickson, JL Merritt, JL Opitz… - Archives of physical …, 1982 - europepmc.org
Data from serial follow-up evaluations of 103 patients with traumatic and atraumatic
myelopathy were recorded to determine rates of significant bacteriuria associated with …

[PDF][PDF] Urinary tract infection in acute spinal cord injury

EB Menon, ES Tan - Singapore Med J, 1992 - smj.sma.org.sg
Preservation of renal function and prevention of recurrent urinary tract infections is the
ultimate goal of any method of neurogenic bladder management in spinal cord injury …

Effectiveness of neomycin/polymyxin bladder irrigation to treat resistant urinary pathogens in those with spinal cord injury

TA Linsenmeyer, A Jain… - The Journal of Spinal …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) will sometimes develop bacterial organisms in the
bladder that are resistant to oral antibotics. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a 5-day …

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis against urinary tract infection in the chronic spinal cord injury patient

DS Sandock, BG Gothe, DR Bodner - Spinal Cord, 1995 - nature.com
Suppressive therapy with antibiotics has long been thought to decrease the number of
complications from the neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury patients, but it may also …

The antimicrobial activity of urine of paraplegic patients receiving methenamine mandelate.

JW Pearman, GJ Peterson, JB Nash - Investigative Urology, 1978 - europepmc.org
The antimicrobial activity of urine collected from adult male paraplegics ingesting
methenamine mandelate (MM) was evaluated. The in vitro bacterial growth in urine from …