Course and Prognosis of Prostatectomy

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Abstract
THE increase in man's life-span has been accompanied by an increase in diseases of aging including hypertrophy and carcinoma of the prostrate. As a consequence, surgery of the lower urinary tract continues to increase in frequency and importance, resulting in continued attempts to lower the morbidity and mortality of prostatic surgery, particularly from bacteremia due to gram-negative rods. Whether antibiotics are effective in preventing bacteremia associated with prostatic surgery is uncertain. Creevy and Feeney1 believed that sterilization of the urine with antibiotics before surgery was instrumental in decreasing the incidence of bacteremia. Appleton and Waisbren2 demonstrated that the administration of . . .