Nonsurgical treatment of bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis in a diabetic patient

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 664-667

  Karasavidou, Larisa ^a   Nikolaou, Stavriani ^a   Archontakis, Stefanos ^a,b   Papatheodorou, Georgios ^a   Koroneos, Vasilios ^a   Drakoulis, Christos ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis; Diabetes complications; Treatment of emphysematous pyelonephritis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; DOXYCYCLINE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; INSULIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIURIA; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSURIA; EMPHYSEMATOUS PYELONEPHRITIS; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; NAUSEA; PYELONEPHRITIS; PYURIA; SYMPTOM; TABLET FORMULATION; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIKACIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EMPHYSEMA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KIDNEY; PYELONEPHRITIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947233175     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: 17246059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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