URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN AND DURING PREGNANCY
Authors:
J. Kliment; J. Svitač
Authors‘ workplace:
Urologická klinika JLF UK a MFN, Martin
Published in:
Urol List 2005; 3(2): 34-38
Overview
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common diseases in the infantile age. Clinical picture of UTI in newborn has its specific manifestations, different from the symptomatology in older children. In adverse circumstances (delayed treatment, inadequate therapy, complicating organic and functional changes of urinary tract), the infection may leave permanent consequences, developing the scars in renal parenchyme. At the progression of renal damage, the affected children are in danger of the development of hypertension in later age, at the bilateral process the condition may lead to chronic renal insufficiency. The diagnostics and the treatment of UTI in the newborn age often requires interdisciplinar cooperation between neonatologist, pediatric nephrologist and pediatric urologist. In the work we present an overview of the basic views on the ethiopathogenesis, diagnostics and the treatment of UTI in children. Urinary tract infections are a frequent complication of pregnancy. It is necessary to provide an early diagnostics and treatment to avoid the possible impairment of mother and fetus.
KEY WORDS:
children, infection, urinary tract
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