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Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common in patients with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction, and symptoms such as pain and spasticity can occur in the absence of infection. In this study, researchers sought to clarify the relation between asymptomatic bacteriuria and developing symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) in 317 Swiss patients with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction. About 60% of patients had previous spinal cord injury; the others had various neurological disorders (e.g., multiple sclerosis).
Findings were as follows:
At baseline, when all patients were asymptomatic, 48% had positive urine dipstick tests for leukocytes, and 61% had asymptomatic bacteriuria (including nearly all patients with chronic indwelling cathet…