An Open Clinical Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of the Drug Fluorothiazinone, 300 Mg Tablets with the Participation of Adult Patients with Chronic Bacterial Cystitis"

Inclusion criteria

• Patient's written consent to participate in the study in accordance with the current legislation.
• The ability to understand the requirements for the study participants, the willingness to follow the procedures according to the Study Protocol.
• Female Patients, at least 18 years old.
• Ambulatory treatment, absence of indications for emergency hospitalization during the period of inclusion in the study for the infection under study.
• Bacterial cystitis, a history of chronic recurrent bladder infection.
• The presence of symptoms characteristic of exacerbation of chronic cystitis: pain syndrome (pain in the lower abdomen, when urinating), dysuric symptoms (frequent urination, pain or burning when urinating, imperative urge to urinate, feeling of incomplete emptying of the bladder). 6 points or higher when assessing the characteristic symptoms on the ACSS scale.
• Consent of patients with preserved reproductive potential to use effective methods of contraception using one of the following methods: abstinence, intrauterine device, oral/ injectable contraceptive, subcutaneous implant or double barrier method (condom with local contraceptive) for the period of participation in the study.
• Negative pregnancy test result before randomization for female patients with preserved reproductive potential.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to read in Russian; inability or unwillingness to understand the essence of the research. Any other conditions that limit the validity of obtaining informed consent or may affect the volunteer's ability to participate in the study.
• Participation in any other study in the last 90 days;
• Presence of an infection of another organ other than a bladder infection, such as endocarditis, osteomyelitis, abscess, meningitis, pneumonia, etc.
• Symptoms requiring hospitalization (macrohematuria, concomitant diseases that complicate the course of the disease).
• Cystocele of 3-4 degrees.
• Treatment with Nitrofurantoin for 30 days before randomization.
• Mental illness (registered by a psychiatrist according to medical records).
• Treatment with hormonal drugs (with the exception of hormonal contraceptives, hormone replacement therapy, topical medications) for the last 10 days.
• Autoimmune diseases or systemic connective tissue diseases in the anamnesis, requiring the appointment of immunosuppressive therapy.
• Recipients of solid organs or tissues (bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells).
• Taking immunosuppressive drugs and/or immunomodulators for 6 months prior to the start of the study.
• The presence of congenital or acquired immunodeficiency (AIDS, etc. according to medical history).
• History of malignant neoplasms, with the exception of basal cell or squamous cell epithelial carcinomas of the skin, which were removed without signs of metastasis more than 3 years ago.
• Blood donation (450 ml or more of blood or plasma) less than 2 months before the start of the study.
• Planned hospitalization and / or surgical intervention during the period of participation in the study, as well as 4 weeks before the expected date of drug administration.
• The presence of a concomitant disease that may affect the evaluation of the results of the study or which, in the opinion of the investigator, will not allow the patient to participate in the study or may affect the conduct of the study and / or its results (including the assessment of safety parameters), any conditions that, in the opinion of the medical investigator, may be a contraindication to participating in the study.
• Pregnancy or breast-feeding.
• Taking any long-acting systemic antibiotic (i.e., with a frequency of administration no more than once a day) for less than 12 hours before randomization.
• The need at the time of randomization for additional systemic antimicrobial therapy (including antibacterial, antifungal therapy) other than treatment with the investigational drug, with the exception of a single oral administration of any antifungal drug for the treatment of vaginal candidiasis.
• Lactose intolerance, lactase deficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption, allergy to the components of the studied drug / reference drug in the anamnesis.
• Contraindications to the use of Nitrofurantoin (severe renal excretory function disorders, renal insufficiency, oliguria, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, hypersensitivity to Nitrofurantoin, stage II-III heart failure, liver cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, acute porphyria).