Acute Non-Obstructive Bilateral Pyelonephritis With Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Hemodialysis. 2022

Arjun Mainali, and Samaj Adhikari, and Tutul Chowdhury, and Nicole Gousy, and Navodita Uprety, and Amita Arora, and Carlos J Palencia
Internal Medicine, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA.

Acute pyelonephritis (APN) is considered a rare cause of acute kidney injury (AKI), especially when no anatomical abnormalities or predisposing factors are identified. Additionally, non-obstructive pyelonephritis is a very infrequent cause of rapidly progressive acute kidney injury. Herein, we present a rare case of a 55-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with acute non-obstructive pyelonephritis leading to AKI eventually requiring hemodialysis. The patient eventually recovered with the administration of intravenous antibiotics with a significant recovery of renal function.

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