Summary— The effectiveness of pre‐operative disinfection of the bladder by irrigation with povidone‐iodine was assessed in 40 patients with indwelling catheters who underwent transvesical prostatectomy. The results were encouraging: in 75% of the cases sterilisation of the urine was achieved and in 1 2.5% counts were <10 5 organisms/ml.
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