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- who: Bassam G. Abu Jawdeh from the India India India have published the Article: Case report: Emphysematous pyelonephritis associated with kidney allograft abscess formation, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: EPN should be considered in patients with poorly controlled diabetes presenting with sepsis, shock, or pyelonephritis.
SUMMARY
Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a rare, acute necrotizing kidney infection that is associated with high mortality. The authors describe a case of a diabetic kidney transplant recipient who presented with EPN associated with extensive cortico-medullary abscess formation requiring transplant nephrectomy. The patient is a . . .
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