Potentiated Aminoglycosides in Postoperative Urinary Tract Infection Prophylaxis

Summary

Urinary tract hardware such as pig-tail catheters are are frequently used for management of urolithiasis or other obstructive pathologies. They are readily colonized by urogenital flora leading to asymptomatic bacteriuria. While asymptomatic bacteriuria is not per se a problem for patients, it may lead to severe infections in the context of hardware manipulation leading to mucosal damage (e.g. catheter exchanges or stone extraction). Such interventions therefore warrant an antibiotic prophylaxis. However, bacteria rapidly form biofilms on hardware; aside of fluoroquinolones, antibiotics have limited anti-biofilm activity. Furthermore, the widespread use of antibiotics has lead to resistant strains. Hence, novel antimicrobial strategies are needed. Recently, metabolism-based potentiation of aminoglycoside has shown high antimicrobial activity against persistent forms of bacteria such as biofilms in the context of murine catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Because of the highly favorable pharmacodynamic profile of aminoglycoside in the urinary tract and the metabolic potentiation, aminoglycosides can be reduced to levels with minimal toxicity.

UROPOT aims to compare the efficacy of potentiated aminoglycoside to standard of care for (i) prophylaxis of asymptomatic bacteriuria during urinary hardware manipulations with mucosal trauma (Pig-tail catheter exchange, stone surgery with prior in-dwelling catheter, etc.) and (ii) sustained microbiological eradication through antibiofilm activity. UROPOT will compare the rate of post-interventional urinary tract infections (primary outcome). It will also assess safety and eradication potency (microbiological outcome).

Conditions

• Urinary Tract Infections
• Urological System Complication of Procedure

Interventions

COMBINATION_PRODUCT

mannitol-enhanced aminoglycoside

Preselected patients with ureteral stents in situ who are scheduled to undergo endourological ureteral stent manipulation will have routine urine cultures prior to intervention. Procedures: Consented patients will be randomized for the type of antibiotic prophylaxis according to a global randomization list (i.e. CRO, AMK, AMK1/2+MAN)). Antibiotics (± mannitol) will be delivered in a single infusion that will be administered within 30 minutes.

DRUG

Ceftriaxon

Preselected patients with ureteral stents in situ who are scheduled to undergo endourological ureteral stent manipulation will have routine urine cultures prior to intervention. Procedures: Consented patients will be randomized for the type of antibiotic prophylaxis according to a global randomization list (i.e. CRO, AMK, AMK1/2+MAN)). Antibiotics will be delivered in a single infusion that will be administered within 30 minutes.

DRUG

Amikacin

Preselected patients with ureteral stents in situ who are scheduled to undergo endourological ureteral stent manipulation will have routine urine cultures prior to intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  collaborator OTHER

• Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

  collaborator OTHER

• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sylvain Meylan · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

TRIPLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-01-16

Primary Completion

2025-10-15

Completion

2026-04-15

Countries

• Switzerland

Study Locations