نتایج جستجو برای: emphysematous pyelonephritis

تعداد نتایج: 4754  

2014
Yu-Chuan Lu Bing-Juin Chiang Yuan-Hung Pong Kuo-How Huang Po-Ren Hsueh Chao-Yuan Huang Yeong-Shiau Pu

BACKGROUND Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a severe necrotizing infection of the renal parenchyma and perirenal tissues that is caused by gas-producing bacterial pathogens. Percutaneous drainage is now the gold standard of definitive management. The aim of this study is to analyze the predictors associated with failure of conservative treatment among patients with EPN and offer the recomm...

Journal: :Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2010
S M T Al-Geizawi A C Farney J Rogers D Assimos J A Requarth W Doares S Winfrey R J Stratta

Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a rare necrotizing infection of the kidney caused by gas-forming organisms, usually occurs in diabetic patients, and often requires nephrectomy for effective therapy. EPN is rarely reported in renal allografts, with only 20 cases found in the English literature. We report herein a case of EPN in a transplanted kidney resulting in acute renal failure and sep...

Journal: :Japanese journal of infectious diseases 2009
Katsumi Shigemura Tomihiko Yasufuku Masuo Yamashita Soichi Arakawa Masato Fujisawa

Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a rare but severe infectious disease. This disease sometimes presents bilaterally, making it difficult to cure. Diabetes mellitus is a common cofactor in this disease. Drainage or nephrectomy, often combined with antibiotics, is ordinarily used for treatment. To our knowledge, only 8 cases of bilateral EPN cured by antibiotics alone have been reported. We r...

2016
Dana Kivlin Carmen Tong Justin Friedlander Patricia Perosio Jay Simhan

BACKGROUND Staghorn calculi are well-established risk factors for recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) and subsequent renal deterioration. Less commonly, long-term urothelial irritation from a calculus may also pose a risk of malignant transformation. CASE PRESENTATION A 77-year-old male with multiple medical comorbidities presented with a chronic right renal pelvic staghorn calculus and...

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