Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature

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 c...

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Autores principales: Flores, Guillermo, Nellen, Haiko, Magaña, Francisco, Calleja, Juan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC116587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12057010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-3-4
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author Flores, Guillermo
Nellen, Haiko
Magaña, Francisco
Calleja, Juan
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Nellen, Haiko
Magaña, Francisco
Calleja, Juan
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description 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 obviously unavoidable. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report one of the few cases of bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by non-surgical treatment.
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spelling pubmed-1165872002-06-27 Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature Flores, Guillermo Nellen, Haiko Magaña, Francisco Calleja, Juan BMC Nephrol Case Report 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 obviously unavoidable. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report one of the few cases of bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by non-surgical treatment. BioMed Central 2002-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC116587/ /pubmed/12057010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-3-4 Text en Copyright © 2002 Flores et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
spellingShingle Case Report
Flores, Guillermo
Nellen, Haiko
Magaña, Francisco
Calleja, Juan
Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature
title Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature
title_full Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature
title_short Acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: A case report and review of the literature
title_sort acute bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis successfully managed by medical therapy alone: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC116587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12057010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-3-4
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