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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