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Published on: July 18, 2017
Emphysematous pyelonephritis and infection-related calculi
Shimrit Tzvi-Behr1,2, Yaacov Frishberg3,4, Ruth Cytter-Kuint4,5
1Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. shimrittb@szmc.org.il.
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Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a critical and life-threatening necrotizing urinary tract infection, marked by gas formation within the renal parenchyma, collecting system or peri-nephric tissue and is extremely rare in children. Proteinaceous calculi are a rare type of kidney stones, reported in only 0.5% of nephrolithiasis cases, and rarely reported in the pediatric population. We present a case of a 16-year-old female with concurrent EPN and proteinaceous calculi with recurrent Escherichia coli urinary tract infection.
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