Oh SJ, Je BK, Lee SH, Choi WS, Hong D, Kim SB. Comparison of computed tomography findings between bacteremic and non-bacteremic acute pyelonephritis due to Escherichia coli. World J Radiol 2016; 8(4): 403-409 [PMID: 27158427 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i4.403]
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Bo-Kyung Je, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Korea University Hospital, 123 Jeokkumro, Danwongu, Ansan, Gyeonggi 15355, South Korea. radje@korea.ac.kr
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
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Retrospective Study
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World J Radiol. Apr 28, 2016; 8(4): 403-409 Published online Apr 28, 2016. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i4.403
Comparison of computed tomography findings between bacteremic and non-bacteremic acute pyelonephritis due to Escherichia coli
Seon Jung Oh, Bo-Kyung Je, Seung Hwa Lee, Won Seok Choi, Doran Hong, Sung-Bum Kim
Seon Jung Oh, Bo-Kyung Je, Seung Hwa Lee, Doran Hong, Department of Radiology, Korea University Hospital, Gyeonggi 15355, South Korea
Won Seok Choi, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Hospital, Gyeonggi 15355, South Korea
Sung-Bum Kim, Department of Internal Medicine, B-um Hospital, Seoul 03663, South Korea
Author contributions: Oh SJ reviewed the clinical data and images and wrote the paper; Je BK designed the research, reviewed the clinical data and images, and supervised the report; Lee SH corrected the structural and grammatical error on the report; Choi WS provided the clinical advice; Hong D contributed to the analysis; Kim SB provided clinical advice and supervised the report.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Korea University Ansan Hospital and was compliant with HIPAA.
Informed consent statement: The requirement for informed consent was waived, due to the retrospective nature of this study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: We have no financial relationships to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Bo-Kyung Je, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Korea University Hospital, 123 Jeokkumro, Danwongu, Ansan, Gyeonggi 15355, South Korea. radje@korea.ac.kr
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Received: December 18, 2015 Peer-review started: December 22, 2015 First decision: January 18, 2016 Revised: January 27, 2016 Accepted: February 16, 2016 Article in press: February 17, 2016 Published online: April 28, 2016 Processing time: 123 Days and 1.1 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: This is a retrospective study to evaluate the different computed tomography (CT) findings between the bacteremic and non-bacteremic acute pyelonephritis (APN) due to Escherichia coli (E. coli). Current study includes 128 subjects diagnosed with APN due to E. coli and performed contrast-enhanced CT. The usefulness of blood culture that was routinely performed in the patients with APN have been doubted; therefore, several studies which aimed to determine the predictive model of bacteremia by using some clinical features have been published. Here, we analyzed the CT findings of APN according to the presence of bacteremia and suggested the significant CT features predicting bacteremia which were urothelial thickening, diffuse peritoneal thickening, cystitis, and pulmonary congestion.
