Foreword

2nd Edition, 2020

Kickoff Meeting for updating the Asian UTI/GTI/STI Consensus Guidelines 2020

(13:00 - 14:00) AAUS Business Meeting (by invitation only)

14:10

Asian Association of UTI & STI (AAUS) Symposium

14:10 - 16:50

Venue: MR 303

UTI Section 1 Chairpersons: Shingo Yamamoto, Japanese Urological Association; Kiyohito Ishikawa, Japanese Urological Association

Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis

Shingo Yamamoto, Japanese Urological Association

Acute Uncomplicated Pyelonephritis

Katsumi Shigemura, Japanese Urological Association

Complicated UTIs with Neurogenic Bladder

Bill Wong, Hong Kong Urological Association

UTI Section 2 Chairpersons: Seung Ki Min, Korean Urological Association; Stephen Shei-Dei Yang, Taiwan Urological Association

Complicated UTIs with Urolithiasis

Lu-Dong Qiao, Chinese Urological Association

Complicated UTIs with Diabetes Mellitus

Jun Kamei, Japanese Urological Association

UTI Section 3 Chairpersons: Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, Singapore Urological Association; Seung Ki Min, Korean Urological Association

Catheter-Associated UTIs

Leyland Chuang, Singapore Urological Association

UTIs in Children

Stephen Shei-Dei Yang, Taiwan Urological Association

GTI Section Chairpersons: Kiyohito Ishikawa, Japanese Urological Association; Katsumi Shigemura, Japanese Urological Association

Acute Bacterial Prostatitis

Masahiro Matsumoto, Japanese Urological Association

Epididymits

Kai Zhang, Chinese Urological Association

Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Prostate Biopsy

Jeong Woo Lee, Korean Urological Association

STI Section Chairpersons: Seungil Jung, Korean Urological Association; Seung-Ju Lee, Korean Urological Association

Diagnostic Strategy for STIs

Sang Rak Bae, Korean Urological Association

Gonococcal Urethritis

In-Chang Cho, Korean Urological Association

Chlamydial Urethritis

Yoshiki Hiyama, Japanese Urological Association

Mycoplasma and Non-Chlamydial Non-Gonococcal Urethritis

Koichiro Wada, Japanese Urological Association

History of 1st Edition, 2016

The Asian Association of UTI and STI (AAUS) was founded in 2003 and has been expanding their activities. The aim of AAUS is to clarify etiology and pathology, treatment and prevention of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs); develop research of causative organisms and surveillance of drug susceptibility and attempt to publish these. The Urological Association of Asia (UAA) has planned to develop the Asian guidelines for all urological fields and the first guidelines for lower urinary tract symptoms were published in 2013. The field of UTIs and STIs is the second project of UAA guideline development, which is organized by AAUS. The first meeting for this project was held on September 20th 2013 in Macau. And then, the “Guideline Development Group” was set up by AAUS. In May 2014, The Guideline Development Group successfully had the first forum in Seoul, Korea and kicked off the project of guideline development. The Group met again in the UAA Congress AAUS Symposium in Kish Island, Iran in December 2014. The Group eventually drafted the document of the Guidelines.

The last consensus forum was held in Seoul on May 3rd 2015. The forum aimed to review the draft of the guidelines. The Group discussed and evaluated the 1st version of guidelines with external peer reviewers. Finally, the 1st Asian guidelines for UTIs and STIs, supported by UAA, were developed in 2015.

On behalf of UAA and AAUS, we would like to thank the Guideline Development Group, the external reviewers, and Ms. Angie See Beng Guek, Executive Secretary of UAA Central Office. We also would like to thank Prof. Kurt G Naber and Prof. Florian Wagenlehner from EAU for their kind advices.

UAA Representatives:

Keong Tatt Foo, Osamu Ogawa, Masayuki Nakagawa

AAUS Representatives:

Tetsuro Matsumoto, Yong-Hyun Cho, Shingo Yamamoto, Ryoichi Hamasuna, Seung-Ju Lee