Role of Renal Ultrasonography in the Management of Pyelonephritis in Pregnant Women

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 98-101

  Seidman, Daniel S ^a,b   Soriano, David ^a   Dulitzki, Motti ^a   Heyman, Zehava ^a   Mashiach, Shlomo ^a   Barkai, Gad ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, INDUCED; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032018753     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Lucas MJ, Cunningham FG. Urinary infection in pregnancy. Clin Obstet Gynecol 1993;36:855-68.
2. Gilstrap LC III, Cunningham FG, Whalley PJ. Acute pyelonephritis in pregnancy: an anteretrospective study. Obstet Gynecol 1981;57:409-13.
3. Thomas S, Bhatia NN. New approaches in the treatment of urinary tract infections. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 1989;16:897-909.
4. Peake SL, Roxburgh FB, Langlois SL. Ultrasonic assessment of hydronephrosis at pregnancy. Radiology 1983;146:167-70.
5. Van Sonnenberg E, Casola G, Talner LB, Wittich GR, Varney RR, D'Agostino HB. Symptomatic renal obstruction or urosepsis during pregnancy: treatment by sonographically guided percutaneous nephrostomy. Am J Radiol 1992;158:91-4.
6. Eckford SD, Gingell JC. Ureteric obstruction in pregnancy: diagnosis and management. Br J Obstet Gynecol 1991;98:137-40.
7. Hendricks SK, Ross SO, Krieger IN. An algorithm for diagnosis and therapy management and complications of urolithiasis during pregnancy. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1991;172:49-54.
8. Graif M, Kessler A, Hart S, et al. Renal pyelectasis in pregnancy: correlative evaluation of fetal and maternal collecting systems. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1992;167:1304-6.
9. Twickler D, Little BB, Satin AJ, Brown CEL. Renal pelvocalyceal dilation in antepartum pyelonephritis: ultrasonographic findings. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1991;165:1115-9.
10. Johnson HA. Diminishing returns on the road to diagnostic certainty. JAMA 1991;265:2229-31.
11. MacMillan MC, Grimes DA. The limited usefulness of urine and blood cultures in treating pyelonephritis in pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol 1991; 78:745-8.
12. Angel JL, O'Brien WF, Finan MA, Morales WJ, Lake M, Knuppel RA. Acute pyelonephritis in pregnancy: a prospective study of oral versus intravenous antibiotic therapy. Obstet Gynecol 1990;76:28-32.
13. Millar LK, Wing DA, Paul RH, Grimes DA. Outpatient treatment of pyelonephritis in pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol 1995;86:560-4.
14. Sackett D, Rosenberg WM, Gray JAM, Haynes RB, Richardson WS. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996;312: 71-2.
15. Rosenberg W, Donald A. Evidence based medicine: an approach to clinical problem-solving. BMJ 1995;310:1122-6.
16. Vendola N, Giumelli P, Galdini R, Bennici S. Ureteral drainage with double-J catheters in obstructive uropathy during pregnancy. Gynecol Obstet Invest 1995;40:274-5.