Retrograde pyelonephritis was produced in rats by the intravesical injection of Proteus mirabilis. When animals were preimmunized against Proteus mirabilis by (a) prior infection, (b) administration of antigen, or (c) passively transferred antiserum, they were resistant to infection by proteus when challenged by the retrograde route. The protective effect of specific preimmunization in retrogra...

Emphysematous pyelonephritis is a rare but dangerous condition in patients with D.M. and urinary tract infection. We report a case of emphysematous pyelonephritis who presented to us with acute abdomen and sepsis. Her CT abdomen showed air in the collecting system of left kidney. She was managed with, I. V. fluids, antibiotics, insulin, and percutaneous nephrostomy. But she died on the 3rd day ...

BACKGROUND Bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis is a life threatening condition usually occurring in diabetics. Management of this condition has traditionally been aggressive and surgery is considered mandatory. However, this is itself a hazardous intervention in a septic, unstable patient with circulatory or liver failure. When bilateral disease is present, the need for long-term dialysis is...

A case of subcapsular hematoma, a rare complication of acute pyelonephritis (APN) is described. A 60-year-old diabetic woman was admitted with a 3 day history of fever and left flank pain due to acute pyelonephritis. On the third day in hospital, left flank pain worsened despite use of antibiotics available for the treatments of APN and hemoglobin rapidly decreased from 11.1 to 7.9 g/dL. Ultras...

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGPN) is a very rare, unusual variant of pyelonephritis characterized by destruction of renal parenchyma. It usually occurs in adults with a history of recurrent urinary tract infections. The condition is rare in children and the disease can imitate renal tumors. Here, we describe a 12-year-old boy who presented with abdominal pain. He did not have any histor...

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...

Pyelonephritis is the most severe form of urinary tract infection (UTI) and occurs more frequently in women than in men [1]. Escherichia coli is the pathogen most often involved and causes >80% of communityacquired UTIs as well as 50% of UTIs in hospital patients [2]. Although antibiotic treatment is effective in most cases, recurrent kidney infection may lead to chronic pyelonephritis in some ...

A urinoma is a collection of urine outside the urinary tract as a result of disruption of the collecting system. Obstructive causes of urine extravasation secondary to stones are not unseen but display a delayed diagnosis due to the gradual onset of symptoms, which can mimic pyelonephritis. We present the case of a 70-year-old female patient who was admitted to hospital with symptoms of right l...

Introduction. Chronic pyelonephritis is the most common kidney disease. In accordance with chronic nature of infection, an important aspect treatment recurrent uncomplicated urinary tract infections antibiotic resistance. The aim this work to evaluate dynamics number relapses and severity symptoms against background complex drug «Nephrobac»®. Materials methods. study included 60 patients aged 2...

Acute infection is accompanied by a characteristic reduction in circulating eosinophils. This study examined the generally held assumption that the eosinopenia of infection is a manifestation of adrenal stimulation. Trichinosis, Escherichia coli pyelonephritis, and early subcutaneous pneumococcal abscess were used as experimental infections of limited severity. Trichinosis is associated with eo...