Use of Sulfanilamide After Transurethral Prostatectomy

The successful results that have accrued from the use of sulfanilamide in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract have prompted a survey of its utility in postoperative management of cases in which transurethral prostatic resection has been performed. At least half of the persons presenting themselves for this operation have grossly infected urine. Only rarely do we endeavor to treat such infections prior to operation. Postoperative febrile reactions which may be traced to such infections occur infrequently in our cases and we believe that the offending bacterial organisms responsible in cases manifesting febrile reactions were probably introduced at operation and are not strains of bacteria previously harbored by the patient. The study promised to be attractive because it was of a group of persons of the same sex, of approximately the same age, and all suffering from an obstructive lesion which gave rise to a similar sequence of