Professors Jeong Seung-il and Yoo Sung-hyun Receive Domestic Academic Award from the Korean Society for Urogenital Infections

Professors at Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital and Chonnam National University Hospital

Professor Jeong Seung-il of the Department of Urology at Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital and Professor Yoo Seong-hyun of the Department of Urology at Chonnam National University Hospital received a domestic academic award at the 21st Regular Academic Conference of the Korean Society for Urogenital Infections.

According to Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital on the 15th, Professors Jeong and Yoo were awarded for their paper titled "Korean Multicenter Study of Infectious Complications after Transurethral Prostate Surgery in Patients with Preoperative Sterile Urine."

Photo of Professor Seung-il Jeong (left) from the Department of Urology at Hwasun Jeonnam National University Hospital and Professor Seong-hyun Yoo from the Department of Urology at Jeonnam National University Hospital.

Professor Jeong served as the principal investigator for this multicenter study and participated as the corresponding author in the awarded paper. Professor Yoo participated as the first author of the paper and received the honor of the award.

The fundamental solution to benign prostatic hyperplasia, which poses a serious risk to the quality of life of middle-aged men, is surgical treatment. Currently, the representative surgical treatments widely used are transurethral endoscopic prostatectomy using a loop and endoscopic prostatectomy using a holmium laser, which has recently gained attention.

These two surgical methods are relatively safe and can be expected to have definite effects; however, due to the nature of prostate resection surgery, there is a possibility of urinary tract infection and even sepsis, making appropriate prophylactic antibiotic therapy important.

Professor Jeong stated, "Currently, in Korea, a single dose of prophylactic antibiotics immediately before prostate surgery is recommended, but infectious complications continue to occur steadily, and the frequency varies depending on the surgical method. The paper analyzes infectious complications after prostate surgery through a large-scale retrospective multicenter study in Korea and suggests an appropriate duration of antibiotics tailored to the current situation according to the surgical method."

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