Does early treatment of urinary tract infection prevent renal damage?

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 653-

  Noe, Horace Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY SCAR; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; LETTER; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; RELAPSE; SCAR FORMATION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUCCIMER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 40949087714     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-3428     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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