A Case Report of Emphysematous Pyelonephritis as a First Presentation of Diabetes Mellitus

Emphysematous Pyelonephritis (EPN) is an acute suppurative Infection of the kidney. It is an uncommon infection, occurs mostly in patients with diabetes and a predilection for females. It has a high fatality rate; therefore, aggressive medical, early intervention or surgical approach is recommended....

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Autores principales: Nasr, Amal Ali, Kishk, Ashraf Gaber, Sadek, Ehab Makram, Parayil, Socrates Mathew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24693378
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.10384
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author Nasr, Amal Ali
Kishk, Ashraf Gaber
Sadek, Ehab Makram
Parayil, Socrates Mathew
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description Emphysematous Pyelonephritis (EPN) is an acute suppurative Infection of the kidney. It is an uncommon infection, occurs mostly in patients with diabetes and a predilection for females. It has a high fatality rate; therefore, aggressive medical, early intervention or surgical approach is recommended. We present here a woman with no previous medical history presented with uncontrolled hyperglycemia for the first time associated with EPN.
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spelling pubmed-39554932014-04-01 A Case Report of Emphysematous Pyelonephritis as a First Presentation of Diabetes Mellitus Nasr, Amal Ali Kishk, Ashraf Gaber Sadek, Ehab Makram Parayil, Socrates Mathew Iran Red Crescent Med J Case Report Emphysematous Pyelonephritis (EPN) is an acute suppurative Infection of the kidney. It is an uncommon infection, occurs mostly in patients with diabetes and a predilection for females. It has a high fatality rate; therefore, aggressive medical, early intervention or surgical approach is recommended. We present here a woman with no previous medical history presented with uncontrolled hyperglycemia for the first time associated with EPN. Kowsar 2013-12-05 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3955493/ /pubmed/24693378 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ircmj.10384 Text en Copyright © 2013, Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal; Published by Kowsar Corp. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A Case Report of Emphysematous Pyelonephritis as a First Presentation of Diabetes Mellitus
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