Management of Sub-Clinical Bacteriuria in Pregnancy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-03-18
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if treatment of pregnant women with urine cultures with a low level of bacteria (less than 100,000 colony forming units (CFU)) may decrease adverse pregnancy outcomes.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant women who seek prenatal care within the University of Texas Health System with UT Physicians.

• Urine culture of less than 100,000 CFU

Exclusion Criteria:

• Less than 18 years of age

• Risk factors to complicated UTI (including but not limited to: diverticula, urolithiasis, renal cysts, indwelling catheter, intermittent catheterization, stent placements, nephrostomy tubes, neurogenic bladder, cystocele, vesicoureteral reflux, ileal conduit)

• Use of immunosuppressant drugs

• Abnormalities of the urinary tract (including but not limited to: known ureteric or urethral strictures, tumors of the urinary tract, pelvicalyceal obstruction, congenital anomalies, history of urological procedures)

• History of renal disease including renal failure and transplants

• Urine culture > 100,000 CFU of any organism