2. ACUTE
PYELONEPHRI
TIS
• INFECTION OF RENAL
PELVIS AND KIDNEY
• INCIDENCE IS HIGHEST IN
HEALTHY WOMEN 15 TO
29 YEARS FOLLOWED BY
INFANTS AND OLDER
PERSONS
• SYMPTOMS: URINARY
FREQUENCY, URGENCY
AND PAIN FLANK PAIN
AND FEVER
5. CASE STUDY
• 53 YO FEMALE C/O FLANK PAIN AND
FEVER
• PYURIA X 1 WEEK
• HX: IDDM, TOTAL ABDOMINAL
HYSTERECTOMY, HTN, OBESITY
• VITALS: 105.8 F, 155/95, 84, 26RR
• LEFT COSTOVERTEBRAL ANGLE
TENDERNESS
• LAB WORK INDICATIVE OF ACUTE
INFECTION
• KUB SHOWS STONE IN LEFT RENAL
PELVIS
• ADMITTED FOR TREATMENT
6. HOD 2
• BED REST
• BLOOD AND URINE CULTURES
OBTAINED
• EMPIRIC ANTIBIOTICS
• IVF THERAPY
• WORSENING LEFT FLANK PAIN
• REMAINS FEBRILE
• IV PYELOGRAM SHOWS NON
FUNCTIONING LEFT KIDNEY
• LEFT NEPHRECTOMY PERFORMED
• BIOPSY OF LEFT KIDNEY SHOWED
STONE OBSTRUCTING PROXIMAL
URETER, DILATION OF PELVICALYCEAL
SYSTEM AND SCATTERED PAPILLAE
WITH GRAY WHITE DISCOLORATION
• TREATED FOR NEXT 2 WEEKS WITH
ANTIBIOTICS AND THEN DISCHARGED
7. QUESTIONS TO PONDER
• WHY ARE WBC CASTS SEEN ONLY IN ACUTE
PYELONEPHRITIS?
• WBC (NEUTROPHILS) INDICATES ACUTE
INFLAMMATION
10. PATIENT’S RISK FACTORS
• FEMALE SEX
• DIABETES MELLITUS
• HISTORY OF BLADDER INFECTIONS
• RENAL STONE
11. Kidney Stones
Calcium Oxalate
75%
Hard, single,
brown,
mulberry stones
Phosphate
10-15%
Smooth, round,
white
Staghorn
calculus
Uric Acid
5%
Multiple,
yellowish,
radioluscent
Seen in gout
Cystine
2%
Seen in
cystinuria
Hard, radio-
opaque due to
sulphur
12. CASE STUDY 1
• USING 7 DAY COURSE OF TMP-SMX AND
CIPROFLOXACIN IN TREATMENT
• 272 WOMEN BETWEEN 2010- 2016 WERE
DIAGNOSED AND TREATED FOR
PYELONEPHRITIS, RETROSPECTIVE
OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
• 30% WERE GIVEN TMP-SMX
• 70% WERE GIVEN CIPROFLOXACIN
• RESULTS SHOWED SIMILAR RESULTS IN CLINICAL
OUTCOMES
• DUE TO FREQUENCY OF PYELONEPHRITIS AND
RISK OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND
ASSOCIATED TOXICITIES, USE OF
CIPROFLOXACIN AS AN ALTERNATIVE CHOICE
FOR TREATMENT
13. CASE STUDY 2
• 69 PATIENTS STUDIED RETROSPECTIVELY WITH OBSTRUCTIVE ACUTE
PYELONEPHRITIS WITH UPPER URINARY TRACT CALCULI
• IDENTIFY RISK FACTORS FOR SEPTIC SHOCK
• MANAGEMENT OF OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS IS PROMPT
DECOMPRESSION OF THE RENAL COLLECTING SYSTEM WITH PERCUTANEOUS
NEPHROSTOMY TUBE OR URETERAL STENTING
• UROSEPSIS ACCOUNTS FOR 20-30% OF ALL SEPTIC PATIENTS
14. CASE STUDY
3
• UTI IN HEALTHY CHILD DUE TO
SALMONELLA
• COMMON CAUSATIVE AGENT
IS E COLI
• SALMONELLA IS RARE AND
DEVELOPS IN THOSE WITH
STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES
OR IMMUNE SUPPRESSIVE
STATUS
• UTI DUE TO SALMONELLA IS
UNCOMMON AND ACCOUNTED
FOR 0.65% OF ALL UTI’S
15. REFERENCES
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Editor's Notes
An infection of the renal pelvis and kidney resulting in the ascent of a bacterial pathogen usually E coli, up the ureters from the bladder to the kidney Pseudomonas aeruginosa, group B streptococci, and enterococci are other causative agents
Accounts for 250,000 office visits and 200,000 hospital admissions annually
Pyelonephritis is one of the most common reasons women visit emergency departments or ambulatory care clinics, frequently resulting in hospitalization
Risk factors include female anatomy, increasing age, diabetes, obesity, and frequent intercourse (although UTI is not defined as a sexually transmitted infection).
symptoms (increased urinary frequency, urgency, hematuria, dysuria, suprapubic or flank pain
History and physical exam are best for diagnosis, a urine culture and antimicrobial susceptibility testing should be performed in women suspected with acute pyelonephritis. Initial empiric therapy should be selected based on the likely infectious agent and changed to a more targeted focus after urine culture results return
Outpatient treatment options:
500mg Cipro BID PO for 7 days; 1000mg extended release Cipro Q day for 7 days, 750mg Levaquin Q day for 5 days
PO Bactrim or Septra of 160mg/800mg BID for 14 days for patients with known susceptibility
Inpatient treatment: IV antibiotics to include a fluoroquinolone (Levaquin, Cipro) , aminoglycoside (Gentamicin, tobramycin) with or without ampicillin, an extended spectrum cephalosporin (Cefipime) or penicillin with or without an aminoglycoside or a carbapenem (Invanz, Merrem)
Acute inflammation has neutrophils only
chronic- lymphocytes and macrophages
Necrotizing papillitis is also called necrotizing pyelonephritis, our patient has complicated acute pyelonephritis
This is a catastrophic complication that results in coagulative necrosis of the renal papillae
It is the result of 2 injuries- stress on the renal medulla and insufficient perfusion causing the renal medulla to necrosis, this is commonly seem in patients with DM or analgesic nephropathy
Necrotizing papillitis is a severe complication of acute pyelonephritis, after the causative agent has invaded and caused damage to the kidney, the urine flow becomes obstructed with kidney stone or neurogenic bladder where the bladder is flaccid or spastic, along with a compromised blood supply, like diabetes. This results in a combination of ischemia and infection, the degree of damage is determined by the degree of impaired vascularity
In our patient having diabetes caused decreased blood flow, due to damage to the small blood vessels and also being diabetic makes her more prone to infection
Usage of cipro more likely in women requiring hospitalization or concomitant E coli blood stream infections
69 patients studied retrospectively with obstructive acute pyelonephritis with upper urinary tract calculi
Acute pyelonephritis with obstruction can progress to urosepsis and can cause septic shock and DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy)
Identify risk factors for septic shock
Management of obstructive uropathy acute pyelonephritis is prompt decompression of the renal collecting system with percutaneous nephrostomy tube or ureteral stenting
They were treated with a cephalosporin, penicillin with a beta lactamase inhibitor an aminoglycoside, carbapenem and followed up with oral antimicrobial therapy
The average age of the patients was 67 years, with an almost 50/50 split on male and female patients
All patients had the following underlying diseases: DM, cardiovascular or neurologic diseases, immunocompromised status and urinary tract abnormalities
Out of the 69 patients, 23 patients progressed to septic shock, there were no significant difference in age, other underlying diseases, or decompression placement in the septic and non septic groups.
The difference was the platelet count and serum albumin in the septic shock group was significantly lower. They showed that decreases in platelet count and serum albumin level might be predictors of the development of septic shock in patients with obstructive APN.
It was thought that platelets and neutrophils are actively involved in sepsis and together cooperate to contribute to the inflammatory response
Serum albumin is known to decrease in response to inflammation as a consequence of increased protein catabolism and decreased hepatic synthesis and leakage into the extravascular space due to increased vascular permeability.
A 7 year old boy presents to the ED with signs and symptoms of a UTI, history showed no unusual findings, otherwise normal healthy child
No recent exposures, travels or infections
Urine culture showed growth of Salmonella and was sensitive to ampicillin, cefotaxim, nalidix-acid, and ceftriaxone
The patient was treated with 75 mg/kg of ceftriaxon for 3 days and continued with cefexim for 7 days
Patient was treated without complication, but UTI caused by salmonella can cause future complications
In conclusion Salmonella UTI is not common but diagnosis should trigger the provider to look for possible occult urologic problems or immunosuppressive disorders