It has been difficult to devise a practical clinical approach to reliably separate simple urinary tract infections (UTIs) from UTIs that also involve the kidneys (acute pyelonephritis). The gold ...

August 22, 2011 — Adjunctive treatment with oral methylprednisolone may lower the occurrence and/or severity of renal scarring in children hospitalized for acute pyelonephritis, according to the ...

Montini G (2007) Antibiotic treatment for pyelonephritis in children: multicentre randomized controlled non-inferiority trial. BMJ 335: 386 Acute pyelonephritis is a serious disease, especially for ...

Current guidelines recommend that children with acute pyelonephritis are initially treated with a parenteral third-generation cephalosporin such as ceftriaxone, and then oral antibiotics. A recent ...

Renal scarring associated with pyelonephritis was far less common among hospitalized children who had been treated with adjunctive oral methylprednisolone sodium phosphate combined with antibiotics, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . UTIs account for 1.1 million pediatric office visits annually and are a significant clinical syndrome in ...

Presented at the meeting of the New England Branch of the American Urological Association, Boston, February 25, 1937. From the Infants' and Children's hospitals and the Departments of Pediatrics and ...