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Do you send urine cultures and treat positive results prior to bladder botox injections?

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Urology · Helios-Urology of St. Louis

The consensus increasingly supports not treating ASB prior to intradetrusor botulinum toxin injection. The AUA/SUNA guidelines on ASB explicitly recommend against screening or treating ASB in most clinical contexts, and this extends logically to procedures like Botox, where the risk of ascending inf...

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