pyuria/fever

We report two patients with incomplete Kawasaki disease that presented as apparent urinary tract infection. Persistent fever and pyuria were the initial presentation without concomitant signs suggestive of Kawasaki disease; thus the patients were treated as urinary tract infection. Fever persisted

Little is known about the significance of pyuria in spinal cord injury patients with indwelling urethral catheters (IUCs). The hospital courses of 32 such patients admitted to a rehabilitation hospital from January 1986 to December 1987 were reviewed to determine the incidence of unexplained febrile

OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of bacterial meningitis among febrile infants in the emergency department (ED) who have pyuria detected in an initial catheterized urine specimen. METHODS This retrospective chart review, conducted at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont., involved all

A patient with Q fever is described who had been ill for a year before the diagnosis was made on the basis of serological data. In addition it was possible to isolate Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent by culture from the urine. This is very exceptional and is to our knowledge only the second

Results of urinalysis and culture of 2181 urine specimens obtained by catheter from febrile children aged less than 24 months were analyzed to determine the following: (1) an optimal cutoff point in considering a bacterial colony count clinically "significant," (2) the accuracy of leukocyte esterase

Despite the widespread recognition of pyuria in acute Kawasaki disease (KD) patients and its inclusion in the American Heart Association list of supporting laboratory data for KD diagnosis, no systematic study of pyuria and the origin of these cells in KD patients have been reported. We used

OBJECTIVE Pyuria is a useful indicator of urinary tract infection among patients with compatible symptoms; however, its utility has not been adequately investigated among patients with acute nephrolithiasis. Therefore, we examine performance characteristics of pyuria and other clinical and

BACKGROUND Although Kawasaki disease (KD) often presents with sterile pyuria, bacterial pyuria (urinary tract infection [UTI]) occasionally occurs. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of 285 children with KD diagnosed between 1995 and 2005. Among these patients, a total of 210 patients

We studied 182 sick, febrile (temperature greater than 38 degrees C) infants less than 3 months of age, who presented at our Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, during a one-year period, to determine the relative causes of fever in this age group. Blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, nasopharyngeal

To investigate the diagnostic significance of a normal urine sediment in the work-up for fever of unknown origin in neutropenia. Urinary tract infection was defined as ≥10(5) urinary pathogens in the absence of another focus. Pyuria was found in only 1/23 neutropenic episodes compared to 21/31 in