The identification of acute pyelonephritis (APN) is still a challenge. The objectives of this study were to assess whether plasma NGAL could be a promising diagnostic biomarker of renal parenchymal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pyelonephritis is a type of urinary tract infection that affects one or both kidneys. The condition is encountered in the acute and chronic forms, with further subclassification of the latter ...

During the years 1932 to 1945, post-mortem examination disclosed 26 cases of this lesion at the Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston City Hospital, and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 19 of ...