Urinary Tract Infections (Prophylaxis)
Post-Intercourse Versus Daily Ciprofloxacin Prophylaxis for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Premenopausal Women
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 17th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Urology, "Purpose: We evaluated and compared the efficacy of post-intercourse and daily oral ciprofloxacin prophylaxis against recurrent lower urinary tract infections in 135 sexually active premenopausal women. Materials and Methods: Post-intercourse (group 1, 70 patients) and daily (group 2, 65 patients) prophylactic regimens of 125 mg. ciprofloxacin were started following a curative, conventional treatment of the initial acute urinary tract infection. Prophylaxis was maintained for 12 months and during this period patients were followed clinically and bacteriologically with urine and introital...
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