PARIS—Ozarelix, an investigational agent, may be effective for selected men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) associated with BPH, phase II trial data suggest. The drug is a highly soluble luteinizing hormone releasing antagonist.
SAN DIEGO—Transplant patients suffering from candidemia are more likely to die if they have renal or hepatic insufficiency, data show.
SAN DIEGO—The empiric use of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (SXT) to treat uncomplicated UTIs may be contributing to increased SXT resistance and multidrug resistance in the United States.
Should children with disorders of sex development (DSD) —in which genitalia, chromosomes, or reproductive systems diverge from what is considered the norm for females or males—have reconstructive surgery before they are old enough to make their own decisions?
PRAGUE—New studies presented at the 13th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation suggest that transplant surgeons can make more effective use of kidneys from deceased donors, even from donors at the outer limits of acceptance criteria.
SAN DIEGO—Urologists may need to re-examine the use of oral fluoroquinolones (FQ) as prophylaxis after transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) biopsy of the prostate, according to study findings presented here at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
SAN FRANCISCO—Elderly recipients of expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys have worse outcomes if the organs come from non-beating heart donors rather than brain-dead donors, data suggest.
SAN FRANCISCO—For women aged 50 and older who are on dialysis, routine mammography screening for breast cancer may not be a cost-effective use of medical re-sources, according to an Australian study.
SAN DIEGO—In dialysis patients, invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections occur much more frequently than in the general population, a study found.
CHICAGO—Some patients receiving voriconazole for invasive fungal infections may experience hallucinations, researchers report.
