Characteristics of Children with Upper Urinary Tract Infection Having no Pyuria

Complicated Upper Urinary Tract Infection

Nasser Shakhssalim1, Mohammad Samzadeh2 and Seyed Mohammad Ghahestani3 1Assistant Professor of Urology, Urology and Nephrology Research Center (UNRC), Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBUMS), Tehran, 2Resident of Urology, UNRC, Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center,SBUMS, Tehran, 3Fellowship of Pediatric Urology Tehran university of medical scienc...

Measurement of pyuria in urinary tract infections.

Diagnostic value of radioisotopic cystography in evaluation of VUR in children with urinary tract infection [Persian]

Radioisotope scanning is very important in evaluation, diagnosis and proper treatment of urinary tract infection (UTI) and vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) because of high sensitivity of this technique and less radiation dose delivered to the patients. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study to determine the frequency VUR in a group of children aged 28 days to 14 years referred to our depa...

Prevalence of Meningitis among Hospitalized Neonates with Urinary Tract Infection

Background: Bacteremia is relatively common in children with urinary tract infection (UTI). The aim of the present study was to determine the frequency of bacterial meningitis among neonates with laboratory-confirmed UTI.Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study was performed on 163 hospitalized neonates in Ali Asghar and Shahid Akbarabadi hospitals affiliated to Iran University o...

Microalbuminuria in children with urinary tract infection

PURPOSE Microalbuminuria is defined as increased urinary albumin excretion (30-300 mg/day) or microalbumin/creatinine ratio (30-300 mg/g) in a spot urine sample. Although microalbuminuria is a predictor of clinical nephropathy and cardiomyopathy, few studies have investigated microalbuminuria in children with urinary tract infection (UTI). METHODS Therefore, we compared the spot urine microal...