THE TREATMENT OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION FOLLOWING TRANSURETHRAL PROSTATIC RESECTION BY USE OF TRYPURE SOLUTION

Abstract

Urinary tract infection, frequently troublesome and difficult to eradicate, has been considered an almost inevitable occurrence following transurethral prostatic resection. In an effort to treat urinary infection after transurethral prostatic resection, we have used trypure, a proteolytic enzyme, in 14 cases.
Nine patients were treated by bladder irrigation with 50cc of 20mg/dl trypure normal saline solution for 6 times in average, and bacteriological cure were obtained in 2 and improvement in 4 patients. The rest of the 5 patients were treated with 40mg/dl trypure normal saline solution in the same manner as above, and bacteriological cure were obtained in 1 and improvement in 3 patients. In total, 11 of the 14 patients (78.6%) were successfully treated by this treatment.
No unpleasant side effect occurred in our cases.
We feel that this treatment is an effective and recommendable therapeutic procedure for combating urinary tract infection following transurethral prostatic resection.