[Localizationstudies in female patients with recurrent urinary tract infection. III. Patients after successfull antireflux-operation (author's transl)].

In 14 girls and 5 women with recurrent urinary tract infections after successfull antireflux-operation we performed 72 bladder-wash-out-tests. Whereas preoperatively 50% of the patients had a supravesical bacteriuria, only 25% had it postoperatively. Most of the postoperativ vesical and supravesical bacteriurias were interpreted as reinfections. The demonstrated postoperativ ascension of bacteria in the upper urinary tract in spite of successfull surgical treatment cannot be taken as an argument against operation. The postoperative supravesical bacteriurias are less frequent and have less morbidity than the prepoerative supravesical infections.