Does early treatment of urinary tract infection prevent renal damage?

Pediatrics

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Doganis, Dimitrios ^a,c   Siafas, Konstantinos ^a   Mavrikou, Myrsini ^a   Issaris, George ^a   Martirosova, Anna ^a   Perperidis, Grigorios ^a   Konstantopoulos, Andreas ^b   Sinaniotis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute pyelonephritis; Renal scarring; Urinary tract infection; Vesicoureteral reflux

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY SCAR; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEPHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 35148873515     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2417     Document Type: Article

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