Imaging and Intervention in Urinary Tract Infections and Urosepsis
Imaging and Intervention in Urinary Tract Infections and Urosepsis by Massimo Tonolini
English | 24 Jan. 2018 | ISBN: 331968275X | 246 Pages | PDF | 16.24 MB
English | 24 Jan. 2018 | ISBN: 331968275X | 246 Pages | PDF | 16.24 MB
Aimed at practicing clinicians and radiologists, this volume provides up-to-date, detailed information on potentially severe urinary tract infections (UTIs), which frequently require intensive in-patient antibiotic therapy, percutaneous or surgical treatment. UTIs are the most prevalent infectious illness, and account for hundreds of thousands of emergency and hospital admissions yearly. Furthermore, UTIs are the most common (almost 40%) type of hospital-acquired infections, with bladder catheterisation being the key risk factor. According to the European Association of Urology guidelines, complicated urinary tract infections (C-UTIs) are those associated with structural or functional genitourinary abnormalities or with conditions that impair the host’s defence mechanisms, leading to an increased risk of acquiring infection or therapy failure.