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Table 80.1

Factors Suggestive of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection

Patient demographics

 Very young or advanced age

 Pregnancy

 Male sex

Comorbidities

 Diabetes mellitus

 Immunosuppression

 Renal transplant

 Chronic kidney disease

Anatomical abnormalities

 Urinary tract instrumentation, including urethral catheter, ureteric stent, nephrostomy

 Prostatic pathology

 Urethral stricture

 Renal or bladder stones

Other factors

 Health-care-associated infection

 Failure of recent antimicrobial therapy