{"id":13149,"date":"2024-05-20T14:15:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2024-07-10T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:22:53","slug":"do-you-really-know-a-uti-when-you-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/do-you-really-know-a-uti-when-you-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Really Know a UTI When You See It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Tara Haelle<\/p>\n<p>Source Medscape<\/p>\n<p>An updated clinical approach to diagnosing urinary tract infections (UTIs) that considers five potential phenotype categories instead of the usual three could aid clinical management and better center patient needs,\u00a0according to the authors of a new study\u00a0in\u00a0<em>The Journal of Urology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The current diagnostic paradigm includes UTI, asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), or not UTI, but the researchers believe these categories exclude for more ambiguous clinical cases, such as patients whose bacteria counts are low but who are symptomatic, or when nonspecific symptoms make it difficult to determine whether treatment with antibiotics is appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings suggest the need to reframe our conceptual model of UTI vs ASB to recognize clinical uncertainty and reflect the full spectrum of clinical presentations,&#8221; Sonali D. Advani, MBBS, MPH, an associate professor of medicine in infectious disease at Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, North Carolina, and her colleagues wrote. &#8220;Recent data suggest that UTI may present as a bidirectional continuum from asymptomatic bladder colonization to a symptomatic bladder infection,&#8221; and some populations may lack the signs or symptoms specific to urinary tract or have chronic lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) that make it difficult to distinguish between ASB and UTI, they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/do-you-really-know-uti-when-you-see-it-2024a10009he\">https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/do-you-really-know-uti-when-you-see-it-2024a10009he<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-ad-unit\" data-v-694ff65e=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Tara Haelle Source Medscape An updated clinical approach to diagnosing urinary tract infections (UTIs) that considers five potential phenotype categories instead of the usual three could aid clinical management and better center patient needs,\u00a0according to the authors of a new study\u00a0in\u00a0The Journal of Urology. The current diagnostic paradigm includes UTI, asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diagnosis-and-treatment-traditional-chinese-and-western-medicine","category-self-defence-againsts-infection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13150,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions\/13150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}