The present study represents an attempt to investigate the etiologic relation between clinical urinary-tract infection and the autopsy finding of chronic pyelonephritis. Recently, by the use of ...

It may be that these contrasting results reflect a bias in the selection of patients for kidney transplantation in favor of glomerulonephritis, that the frequency with which the 2 types of renal ...

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1. Transplanting autologous renal progenitor cells (RPCs), (kidney stem cells derived from self-donors), into rat models with kidney damage from pyelonephritis – a type of urinary infection that has ...

Background A 54-year-old nondiabetic male presented with high fever, vague lower abdominal pain and leakage of urine around his long-standing suprapubic catheter. Examination revealed pyrexia and ...

Pyelonephritis refers to a lower urinary tract infection (UTI) that has spread to the pelvis of the kidney. The main goals of treating this condition are symptom reduction and infection control. The ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 127, No. 6 (Jun., 1973), pp. 626-631 (6 pages) The effect of ampicillin in combination with diuresis (produced by injection of furosemide) on renal titers of ...