Millions of patients of all ages suffer worldwide from diverse urinary pathologies, such as lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunction, bladder pain syndrome, urinary tract infections (UTIs), or bladder cancer. The research project investigates the interplay between the bladder and the microbiome. The goal is to evaluate the association of microbiological and immunological factors with lower urinary tract health in humans.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
800
Balgrist University Hospital
Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
RECRUITINGThe primary endpoint is to evaluate differences in clinical data, immuno- and biome-markers for different LUT diseases. Data to evaluate the primary endpoints consists of:
* Clinical Patient Data To evaluate differences in disease-specific clinical data for different LUT diseases, including number of UTIs within the last year, number and name of antibiotics taken, and clinical symptoms. * Immunological Markers To evaluate differences in immunological markers for different LUT diseases, assessed by immune cell profiling of bladder biopsies and bladder washing cytology * Biome-Markers (Microbiome \& Metabolomics) To evaluate differences in biome-markers for different LUT diseases, assessed by bacterial and bacteriophage isolation, DNA extraction and 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing (including deep sequencing of the microbiome in specific cases), and metabolomic data including bacterial metabolomic expression profiles in urine and stool samples
Time frame: 1 year
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