Endourology Disease Group Excellence (EDGE) Consortium: Antibiotics (Abx) for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL) Part 2
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2025-01-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This study will be a multi-institutional randomized clinical trial of a short course of
pre-operative antibiotic prophylaxis in addition to perioperative antibiotics prior to
undergoing percutaneous nephrolithotomy. The select patient population will be those patients
deemed to be at a moderately increased risk of postoperative infectious complications. These
higher risk patients are those with indwelling urinary drainage tubes and those with a
positive preoperative urine culture.