It has been difficult to devise a practical clinical approach to reliably separate simple urinary tract infections (UTIs) from UTIs that also involve the kidneys (acute pyelonephritis). The gold ...

Acute pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection of the kidneys that affects up to 2 percent of pregnant women. In most cases, the infection first develops in the lower urinary tract. If it’s not ...

Although acute pyelonephritis is common in women, few controlled trials have been done to assess the optimum duration of therapy for this infection. To provide more data, researchers in Sweden ...

Guidelines for the management of acute pyelonephritis in children currently recommend that oral antibiotic therapy is preceded by parenteral treatment with a third-generation cephalosporin. This ...

Background and aims: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are relatively common infections in children. Findings on nuclear renal scans suggest that the vast majority of infants and young children with ...

Acute pyelonephritis is a disease that occurs due to severe kidney infection. The infection starts through the lower urinary tract infection (UTI) and spreads through the urethra, where the bacteria ...

THE clinical diagnosis of pyelonephritis is frequently overlooked, and the disparity between the clinical and post-mortem findings in this infection has been emphasized repeatedly. 1–4 The failure of ...

To determine the frequency and clinical significance of ultrasonographically detectable alterations in renal volume and anatomy that are associated with acute pyelonephritis, 25 women underwent renal ...

The U.S. FDA has approved intravenous fosfomycin (Contepo) for treating adults with complicated urinary tract infections ...

Renal scarring associated with pyelonephritis was far less common among hospitalized children who had been treated with adjunctive oral methylprednisolone sodium phosphate combined with antibiotics, ...

Pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of oral tebipenem HBr met primary endpoint, demonstrating statistical non-inferiority versus intravenous ertapenem in patients with complicated urinary tract infection ...