Urinary tract infections frequently affect pregnant mothers. This problem causes significant morbidity and healthcare expenditure. Three common clinical manifestations of UTIs in pregnancy are: asymptomatic bacteriuria, acute cystitis and acute pyelonephritis. Escherichia coli remains the most frequent organism isolated in UTIs. All pregnant mothers should be screened for UTIs in pregnancy and ...

Gentamicin, because it is stored in renal tissues, can prevent acute retrograde pyelonephritis. Since different aminoglycosides accumulate and persist to various degrees in the kidney parenchyma, the prophylactic activities of gentamicin, tobramycin, amikacin, and netilmicin were compared. The four antibiotics were given intramuscularly to rats 3 days before initiating ascending unilateral pyel...

INTRODUCTION The role of vitamin A in re-epithelialization of the damaged mucosal surfaces has been documented. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of vitamin A in preventing renal scaring after acute pyelonephritis in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS This clinical trial study was conducted in children with acute pyelonephritis in Mofid Children Hospital (Tehran, Iran). Patients wer...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the presence of abnormal results in DMSA renal scintigraphy indicates pyelonephritis. METHODS: We performed the washout test in 17 children with urinary tract infection, as a criterion standard, to locate the infection site. All the children underwent DMSA renal scintigraphy in the acute phase of the disease. The results were analyzed by the chi-square test or Fi...

OBJECTIVE To measure the incidence of ampicillin-resistant uropathogens in acute antepartum pyelonephritis and to determine if patients with resistant organisms had different clinical outcomes. STUDY DESIGN This was a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of pregnant women admitted with pyelonephritis, diagnosed by standard clinical and laboratory criteria. All patients received am...