Acosta MEC, Duarte PMC, Guillén DA, Martínez SM, Díaz ÁMF

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the study of patients with first febrile urinary tract infection is a controversial issue at present.
Objective: to submit a research study strategy for patients with first febrile urinary tract infection.
Methods: prospective longitudinal study of 235 patients admitted to the nephrology service from May 2007 to December 2011. The study variables were age, sex, duration and intensity of febrile condition, blood leukocyte count, globular sedimentation velocity, reactive C protein, renal and bladder ultrasound, vesicoureteral reflux, etiological agent, first and second renal scintigraphies and the clinical condition. For the association of qualitative variables, the Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used whereas Student's t test was the choice for continuous quantitative variables.
Results: of the total number of cases under study, 125 presented with scintigraphic alterations in the acute phase of infection, which accounted for 53.2 %. By means of the receiver operating characteristic curve, the predictive capacity of clinical and laboratory variables were analyzed. The clinical condition was the best predictor of pyelonephritis. On the basis of these results, it was possible to design treatment flow diagram of pediatric patients with first febrile urinary tract infection.
Conclusions: the clinical condition was the best predictor of the acute pyelonephritis diagnosis which, along with determination of the infective microorganism, supports the proposal of the study strategy for patients with first febrile urinary tract infection, thus the performance of radiological studies is restricted.

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