Diagnosis and management of acute pyelonephritis in adults

American Family Physician

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 933-942

  Ramakrishnan, Kalyanakrishnan ^a,b   Scheid, Dewey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFALEXIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENOXACIN; ESTERASE; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LOMEFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENDER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; INSOMNIA; KLEBSIELLA; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; ONSET AGE; OTOTOXICITY; OUTPATIENT; PHLEBITIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROTEUS; PYURIA; QT PROLONGATION; RASH; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VOMITING; YEAST;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK FACTORS; URINE;

EID: 14644433725     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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