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The antibody-coated bacteria (ACB) immunofluorescence test has emerged as the preferred noninvasive technique to distinguish reliably between pyelonephritis and cystitis. Investigators have recently correlated a positive test with chronic bacterial prostatitis and cystitis complicating a bladder tumor or stone. We present data that appear to prove that acute bacterial epididymitis associated with bacteriuria can also evoke a positive ACB determination.
Urology 1979 Sep
PMID:Epididymitis as cause of antibody-coated bacteria in urine. 38 44

To investigate the presence of intraglomerular immunoprotein deposition in chronic pyelonephritis (CPN), 29 renal specimens from patients with various urological diseases were examined by immunofluorescence. The relationship between immunohistological findings and types of glomerular changes which were classified according to Heptinstall's criteria was studied. Only type 2 glomeruli, which were considered to be ischemic changes, demonstrated granular and globular depositions of IgM and C3 in the collapsed and solidified shrunken tufts. IgM was positive in 117 of 258 (45.3%), and C3 in 122 of 264 (46.2%) type 2 glomeruli. The distribution patterns of IgM and C3 were much the same. IgG and IgA were rarely observed and neither fibrinogen nor albumin was observed in the tufts of type 2 glomeruli. Normal glomeruli and other types of glomerular changes in CPN showed few or no intraglomerular immunoprotein deposition.
Acta Pathol Jpn 1979 Sep
PMID:Immunopathology of the glomerular changes in chronic pyelonephritis. 38 7

Urinary stones form as a consequence of urinary supersaturation. Supersaturation occurs as a result of elevated concentrations of urinary solutes. Dietary, metabolic, endocrine, hereditary, and infectious processes alter urinary solute concentrations. Struvite (MgNH4PO. 6H2O) and carbonate-apatite [Ca10(PO4)6CO3] stones form in urine that becomes supersaturated as a by-product of the hydrolysis of urea by the bacterial enzyme urease. Urease-induced stones manifest primarily as branched renal calculi and as bladder calculi. Conventional therapy has usually consisted of surgical removal of the stone combined with a short course of antimicrobial therapy. Such treatment is curative in about 50% of cases. Recurrent stone formation and progressive pyelonephritis occur in those who are not cured. Adjunctive medical treatment with acetohydroxamic acid or hydroxyurea lessens the risk of calculogenesis and decreases growth of residual stones in patients who are not cured by conventional therapy. Patients with urea-splitting urinary infection and renal stones have a major life-threatening disease. The morbidity and expense that result from this disease are great. Long-term (perhaps lifetime) chemotherapy with antimicrobial agents and/or urease-inhibiting drugs combined with judicious and expert surgical intervention can be expected to significantly improve the plight of these unfortunate patients.
Urol Res 1979 Sep
PMID:Urease stones. 38 98

Using the fluorescent antibody test, the presence of antibody-coated bacteria in 10 out of 17 urine sediment samples from cattle infected with Corynebacterium renale is described. These antibodies were mainly of the immunoglobulin class IgG, and to a lesser extent IgA. This finding is characteristic for infections of the upper urinary tract (pyelonephritis). In seven samples no antibody coating of the bacterial surface was detected. In these cases an infection of the lower urinary tract (cystitis) is suggested.
Vet Rec 1979 Sep 29
PMID:Antibody coated bacteria in urine sediment from cattle infected with Corynebacterium renale. 39 Aug 48

Acute pyelonephritis and acute ureteral obstruction often present with similar clinical and urographic findings. Ultrasound, however, can easily detect the presence of obstruction as well as demonstrate characteristic findings suggestive of acute pyelonephritis, and thus allows differentiation. In two patients with acute pyelonephritis, the ultrasonic findings consisted of a large swollen kidney with an increased anechoic corticomedullary area, with multiple scattered low-level echoes. Each of the two cases is discussed in detail.
Radiology 1979 Sep
PMID:The sonographic appearance of acute pyelonephritis. 47 47

In a review of 45 patients who started receiving hemodialysis (HD) after the age of 70 years (mean, 75 years), compared with a control of 70 HD patients (mean age, 42 years), the two-year survival for elderly patients was 42% and 58% for controls. In the elderly group, age did not correlate with survival. Nine elderly patients were over 80 years old and had a two-year survival of 41%. The elderly patients had a significantly lower mean predialysis blood pressure (BP) (142/73 +/- 3/1 mm Hg) than the controls (158/88 +/- 2/1 mm Hg) (P less than .001). Only 13% of the elderly patients received antihypertensive medication, compared with 41% of controls (P less than .01). The BP showed a significant negative correlation with age in both elderly ( r - .41, P less than .01) and control (r = .35, P less than .001) patients. Glomerulonephritis was less common in the elderly (9%) than control (31%) groups, and pyelonephritis was more common (29% vs 16%).
Arch Intern Med 1979 Sep
PMID:Hemodialysis in the eighth and ninth decades of life. 47 17

In 85 patients with ascertained chronic pyelonephritis the relations between the measured values of the combined PAH-inulin-clearance, the index of the adrenal cortex and other radiological findings were investigated. Here the determination of the cortex of the adrenal cortex resulted in a better correlation with the sizes clarification values than the calculation of the size of the kidney. By variance analysis (F-test) significant differences between the individual function groups became clear.
Z Gesamte Inn Med 1977 Sep 15
PMID:[Relationships between the value of combined PAH-inulin clearance, the kidney-cortex index as well as between additional radiographic findings in chronic pyelonephritis]. 59 10

A case of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is reported in which arterial encasement was demonstrated. Pathologic correlation is shown.
Radiology 1978 Sep
PMID:Arterial encasement in xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis. 67 27

The urogenital and digestive systems in 23 centenarians (7 males and 16 females) were examined pathologically. In the urogenital system, macroscopic scar formation, chronic pyelonephritis and arterio- and arteriolosclerosis of the kidney usually were pronounced. Six instances of prostatic glandular hyperplasia were demonstrated, and three of these were associated with well-differentiated adenocarcinoma. The testis, ovary and uterus usually showed a strong tendency toward atrophic changes. In the digestive system, senile atrophy of the liver and formation of colonic diverticula were noted. In this series of aged subjects, malignant lesions of the gastrointestinal tract were rare. It is also noteworthy that the unsuspected lesion of massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage associated with the various observed disorders might have been the cause of death in some of these centenarians.
J Am Geriatr Soc 1978 Sep
PMID:Pathology of centenarians. II. Urogenital and digestive systems. 68 54

Sera from 103 fasting individuals 3 to 76 years of age and free of clinical infectious disease and sera from 183 patients with infectious disease were assayed for serum total non-esterfied fatty acids (tNEFA) and compared. Data were also separated into five groups according to age of donor: 3--7, 8--19, 20--35, 36--60, and 61--76 years. The mean group serum levels of tNEFA increased with age. Among patients with infectious diseases sixty-five were diagnosed as having hepatitis, 41 with infectious mononucleosis, 18 with cellulitis, 12 with pulmonary tuberculosis, 11 with non-pneumococcal pneumonia, 9 with pneumococcal pneumonia, 8 with pharyngitis, 6 with pyelonephritis, 6 with aseptic meningitis, 4 with Gram-negative sepsis, and 3 with encephalitis. The sera from 23 non-fasting patients with gonorrhea were also tested. The serum tNEFA levels were found to be altered, in fact depressed from normal group values, only in patients with pneumonia or tuberculosis. This depression may be related to aberrant pulmonary metabolism during pneumonia.
Clin Chim Acta 1978 Sep 15
PMID:Reduced level of non-esterified fatty acids in sera from patients with infectious respiratory disease. 69 41


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