Emphysematous pyelonephritis in decompensated diabetes: a case report and review of the literature
Abed El Rahman, D.; Zanetti, G.; Ferruti, M.; Acquati, P.; Maggioni, A.; Oliva, I.; Finkelberg, E.; Abed El Rahman, S.; Zilocchi, M.; Filizzolo, M.; Rocco, F.
Archivio Italiano di Urologia Andrologia Organo Ufficiale di Societa Italiana di Ecografia Urologica e Nefrologica 83(2): 108-111
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1124-3562 PMID: 21826886 Document Number: 653854
Emphysematous pyelonephritis is a rare and severe renal parenchyma necrotizing infection visible just in diabetic patients which results in gas presence--probably produced through the glucose fermentation process--in the collecting system, renal parenchyma and perirenal tissue. We present a case of a not known diabetic female patient with emphysematous pyelonephritis of the left kidney and emphysematous pyelitis of the controlateral kidney.