ReviewWorld journal of nephrology2024
Ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound and pyelonephritis: A narrative review.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- CEUS in the evaluation of focal salivary gland lesions: a systematic review.Journal of ultrasound · 2026Pooled it
- CEUS for the diagnosis of acute graft pyelonephritis in renal transplant recipients.Journal of ultrasound · 2026Article
- Barriers to the Broader Use of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Saudi Healthcare and Medical Research.Ultrasound international open · 2026Article
- POCUS for acute abdominal pain: practical scan protocols on gastrointestinal diseases and an evidence review.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Review
- B-flow imaging in abdominal ultrasound: a pictorial essay.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Review
- Implementation of a Bundle for the Management of Patients With Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection: A Pre-Post Quasi-experimental Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Role of ultrasound in the evaluation of patients with acute pelvic pain.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Review
- Expanding Role of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound and Elastography in the Evaluation of Abdominal Pathologies in Children.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- High-mobility group box 1 in acute kidney injury.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Diffusion-weighted MRI in the identification of renal parenchymal involvement in children with a first episode of febrile urinary tract infection.Frontiers in radiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Acute pyelonephritis (APN) is a bacterial infection resulting in kidney inflammation, typically arising as a complication of an ascending urinary tract infection that ascends from the bladder to the kidneys. Clinical diagnosis is generally based on clinical and laboratory findings. Recent guidelines recommend not performing diagnostic imaging unless a complicated APN is suspected or the infection affects high-risk patients such as the elderly, immunocompromised individuals, or diabetics. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is a valuable tool in both the diagnosis and follow-up of APN. It aids in distinguishing small simple nephritic involvement from abscess complications and monitoring their evolution over time during antibiotic therapy. Given its lack of ionizing radiation and nephrotoxicity, CEUS is a valid diagnostic modality for approaching and monitoring pyelonephritis, improving early identification and characterization of inflammatory lesions. This review aims to summarize the main evidence on the use of ultrasound and CEUS in the diagnosis of APN and its follow-up.
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