Kathrin Bausch, Guglielmo Mantica, Emma J Smith, Riccardo Bartoletti, Franck Bruyère, Tommaso Cai, Suzanne Geerlings, Jennifer Kranz, Bela Köves, Adrian Pilatz, Sören Schubert, Rajan Veeratterapillay, Florian Wagenlehner, Neha Gupta, Gernot Bonkat
Although tuberculosis (TB) ranks among the most frequent infectious diseases worldwide, one of its extrapulmonary (EP) manifestations, genitourinary (GU) TB, is often underestimated by urologists, particularly in areas such as Europe where TB is not endemic. The aim of this review is to give urologists a concise overview of GUTB as a supplement to the more comprehensive European Association of Urology 2023 update on urological infections guidelines. EPTB can develop in 16% of TB cases. GUTB accounts for 4.6% of EPTB and is often asymptomatic or nonspecific, so it can be confused with other urogenital diseases...
January 2024: European Urology Focus