A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department

This case report describes an atypical presentation of an atypical disease entity: Emphysematous Cystitis, a rapidly progressive, ascending urinary tract infection, in an emergency department (ED) patient whose chief complaint was abdominal pain and who had a urinalysis not consistent with the diagn...

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Autor principal: Dhingra, Kapil R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2008
Materias:
Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561737
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spelling pubmed-26722562009-06-24 A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department Dhingra, Kapil R. West J Emerg Med Infectious Disease This case report describes an atypical presentation of an atypical disease entity: Emphysematous Cystitis, a rapidly progressive, ascending urinary tract infection, in an emergency department (ED) patient whose chief complaint was abdominal pain and who had a urinalysis not consistent with the diagnosis of cystitis. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2008-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2672256/ /pubmed/19561737 Text en Copyright © 2008 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
title A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
title_full A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
title_fullStr A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
title_short A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis Presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
title_sort case of complicated urinary tract infection: klebsiella pneumoniae emphysematous cystitis presenting as abdominal pain in the emergency department
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561737
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