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Bacterial cystitis is a problem often found among patients suffering from diabetes mellitus. Insulin management can be impaired by this condition. Diagnosis and therapy of a urinary tract infection are very important in regarding the possibility of bacteria ascending to the kidneys because in a great amount of diabetic patients the kidneys are already damaged by diabetic glomerular nephropathy. Compared to other patients of our clinic the frequency of cystitis among diabetic dogs (n = 158, cystitis diagnosed in 12.7%) and cats (n = 71, cystitis diagnosed in 9.9%) was already considerably higher when diabetes mellitus was diagnosed in these animals. In this retrospective study female animals were far more affected than males. The diagnosis of cystitis among cats and dogs was most frequent when patients had already been suffering from polydipsia and polyuria for more than four weeks. A division among the dogs depending on the etiology of diabetes mellitus led to the following result: especially patients suffering from Cushing's disease and bitches with progesterone-STH-induced diabetes mellitus--particularly when endometritis or pyometra was found--were running the highest risk of developing urinary infections. The bacterium most frequently isolated in the urine samples was E. coli.
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PMID:[Incidence of bacterial cystitis in diabetic dogs and cats at the time of diagnosis. Retrospective study for the period 1990-1996]. 953 71

Bacterial cystitis is a common condition characterised by a high incidence, an easy diagnosis and a simple treatment. Three subsets should be distinguished: simple cystitis, occurring in young women, requires no bacteriologic work-up and is best treated by a single dose or a three-day regimen consisting of a common antibiotic, complicated cystitis, occurring in patients with diabetes, an urologic history or immunosuppression; it requires a seven-day treatment course, the choice of which is guided by antibiotic sensitivity tests; recurrent cystitis is defined by, at least, four yearly flares; such recurrences warrant thorough vulvo-vaginal examination seeking a local lesion; if none is found, protracted treatment using an inhibitory rather than a bactericidal antibiotic dosage is an efficient prophylactic regimen.
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PMID:[Cystitis]. 1470 19