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Gill et al. [1]
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234
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3 patients (1.3%) required admission for sepsis
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1 patient (0.4%) had Grade 4 septicaemia.
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Langenhuijsen et al. [2]
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209
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4 patients (1.9%) with fever received additional antibiotics.
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There were no hospital admissions.
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Igdem et al. [3]
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135
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3 patients (2.2%) developed symptomatic urinary infection with fever and received antibiotics.
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There were no hospital admissions.
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1 (0.7%) patient developed asymptomatic bacteriuria resistant to antibiotic therapy.
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Moman et al. [4]
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402 had transrectal FM implantation
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2 (0.5%) developed urosepsis (Grade 3 toxicity)
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512 had transperineal FM implantation
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No grade 3 or 4 toxicity.
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Loh et al.
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285
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22 patients (7.7%) received antibiotic treatment for a urinary infection
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8 patients (2.8%) required hospital admission for urosepsis.
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TRUS biopsy series
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Wagenlehner et al. [10]
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521
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5.2% had symptomatic urinary tract infection
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3.1% required hospital admissions for infectious complications
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