Enhanced Versus Extended Preoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis Regimens for Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery in High Infectious Risk Patients

Enhanced Versus Extended Preoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis Regimens for Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery in High Infectious Risk Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial

In the available literature, there is a lack the risk categorization of infectious complications after RIRS with subsequent recommendation as regard to AP in different risk patients. Therefore this study is planning to investigate the optimal protocol for AP prior to RIRS in high-risk population through comparing the enhanced regimen (2days) vs. the extended regimen (7 days) in a randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Renal Stone
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Enhanced regimen; Drug: Extended regimen

Detailed Description

Retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) has gained a wide popularity in the management of renal stones due to tremendous technological advancements over the last years. According to the current guidelines, RIRS could be offered as a first line surgical treatment option for renal stones less than 20 mm (or ≤ 10 mm for lower pole stone/s) with favorable stone free rate (SFR).

Despite being a minimally invasive, several morbid complications could be encountered during/after RIRS. Post-operative infectious complications constitute one of the major reported complications after RIRS with varying presentations which include urosepsis, febrile urinary tract infection (UTI) and asymptomatic bacteriuria.

Several large-populations studies have reported the incidence of infectious complications post-RIRS. Among ≈ 12.000 patients undergoing ureteroscopy and were evaluated by The Clinical Research Office of Endourological Society (CROES), post-operative fever, UTI and urosepsis were reported in 1.8%, 1.3% and 0.3%, respectively. Moreover, in another report by Reducing Operative Complications from Kidney stones (ROCK) for 1.817 patients undergoing RIRS, 2.4% required hospital readmission (HR) for infectious complications.

The underlying mechanisms of infectious complications post-RIRS include combination of existing bacteria in the urinary tract and rising intrarenal pressure due to prolonged and/or vigorous irrigation. In addition, several studies have investigated the independent predictors of infectious complications after RIRS with identified positive preoperative urine culture or prior history of recurrent UTI, long-lasting indwelling ureteral stents, diabetes mellitus (DM) and immunocompromised patients.

In addition to the substantial patient morbidity, post-operative infectious complications constitute a major burden to the health care resources. Therefore, minimizing these devastating events should an important consideration by health care providers not only for improving the patient satisfaction but also for cost-saving issues. Therefore, it is a crucial entity for clinicians to identify high-risk patients for post-RIRS infectious complications and to exhaust the different clinical mitigations to minimize these events.

According to American Urological Association (AUA) Best Practice Statements on Antibiotic Prophylaxis (AP), single dose of perioperative antibiotics is indicated for all cases prior to RIRS. However, the exact regimen and duration of preoperative AP for high risk patients for infectious complication are still undefined.

In previous studies on AP for high risk patients prior to percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), different protocols were compared as regard to its impact on infectious events after PCNL. Despite the reported advantage of the extended regimen on minimizing the infectious events, the drawbacks of prolonged antibiotics as untoward adverse events (AEs) and drug resistance should be considered.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 280
• Phase: Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Ehab Nour; Email: daehab1994@gmail.com

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Outside U.S./Canada
    • Mansoura, Outside U.S./Canada, Egypt, 35516
      • Recruiting
      • Mansoura Urology and Nephrology Center
      • Contact: Ehab Nour; Email: daehab1994@gmail.com

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to give informed consent.
• Age ≥18 years.
• Renal stone <20 mm in which RIRS is recommended.
• High susceptibility of post-procedural infectious complications by one or more of the followings: - Positive preoperative urine culture within 12 weeks of the planned intervention. -Indwelling ureteral stents for more than 4 weeks. -Diabetes mellitus.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Solitary kidney.
• Chronic kidney disease.
• Pregnant.
• Have received antibiotics within 7 days prior to enrollment.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Enhanced regimen; They will receive two days antibiotic prophylaxis according to the predetermined protocol. Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (TMP-SMX) twice daily will be utilized as the first choice AP for 2 days according to the assigned randomization group with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention. In patients with allergy or resistance to TMP-SMX, the following antibiotics will be considered in the following order: 100 mg Nitrofurantoin twice daily, 500 mg Ciprofloxacin twice daily or 200 mg Cefpodoxime twice daily. Patients with positive culture which is sensitive only to parenteral antibiotics will receive culture-based intramuscular/intravenous antibiotics following the same schedule (2 days with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention)	Drug: Enhanced regimen; Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (TMP-SMX) twice daily will be utilized as the first choice AP for 2 days with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention. In patients with allergy or resistance to TMP-SMX, the following antibiotics will be considered in the following order: 100 mg Nitrofurantoin twice daily, 500 mg Ciprofloxacin twice daily or 200 mg Cefpodoxime twice daily. Patients with positive culture which is sensitive only to parenteral antibiotics will receive culture-based intramuscular/intravenous antibiotics following the same schedule (2 days with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention)
Active Comparator: Extended regimen; They will receive seven days antibiotic prophylaxis according to the predetermined protocol. Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (TMP-SMX) twice daily will be utilized as the first choice AP for 7 days with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention. In patients with allergy or resistance to TMP-SMX, the following antibiotics will be considered in the following order: 100 mg Nitrofurantoin twice daily, 500 mg Ciprofloxacin twice daily or 200 mg Cefpodoxime twice daily. Patients with positive culture which is sensitive only to parenteral antibiotics will receive culture-based intramuscular/intravenous antibiotics following the same schedule ( 7 days with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention)	Drug: Extended regimen; Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim (TMP-SMX) twice daily will be utilized as the first choice AP for 7 days with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention. In patients with allergy or resistance to TMP-SMX, the following antibiotics will be considered in the following order: 100 mg Nitrofurantoin twice daily, 500 mg Ciprofloxacin twice daily or 200 mg Cefpodoxime twice daily. Patients with positive culture which is sensitive only to parenteral antibiotics will receive culture-based intramuscular/intravenous antibiotics following the same schedule (7 days with the last day of AP course being one day prior to intervention)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Rate of postoperative sepsis	Postoperative sepsis is defined as severe post-procedural (within 12 hours after the procedure with coexisting positive urine culture) infectious complication with ≥ two of the following findings: - Body temperature more than 38.3C or below 36C. - Tachycardia (>90/minute). - Respiratory rate more than 20/minute. - Disturbed mental status. - Systolic blood pressure < 90 mmHg & mean arterial pressure < 70 mmHg or systolic blood pressure decrease < 40 mmHg. - WBC >12,000 or <4,000.	30 days after intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Rate of postoperative fever	30 days after intervention
Rate of postoperative UTI	30 days after intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Mansoura University
• Investigators: Study Director: Amr A Elsawy, Mansoura University; Principal Investigator: Ehab Nour, Mansoura University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): May 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): July 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 17, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 17, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): May 20, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 14, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 8, 2022
• Last Verified: November 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Sepsis; Infectious complications; Renal stone; Retrograde intrarenal surgery
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Kidney Diseases; Urologic Diseases; Disease Attributes; Pathological Conditions, Anatomical; Urolithiasis; Urinary Calculi; Calculi; Infections; Communicable Diseases; Kidney Calculi; Nephrolithiasis
• Other Study ID Numbers: AS-5-2022

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No