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Pyelonephritis is the inflammation of the upper urinary tract, involving the renal pelvis and parenchyma. Its prompt diagnosis is important in order to avoid both short- and long-term complications such as scarring of the kidneys, hypertension, and in some unfortunate case even chronic renal insufficiency leading to a transplant. In pediatric patients, it usually migrates to the kidney from the bladder, being considered a continuum of disease from the lower to the upper urinary tract, while it is rarely seeded there hematogenously.
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Scionti, A., Rossi, P., Gulino, P., Semeraro, A., Defilippi, C., Tonerini, M. (2016). Acute Pyelonephritis. In: Miele, V., Trinci, M. (eds) Imaging Non-traumatic Abdominal Emergencies in Pediatric Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41866-7_17
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