An infected kidney stone can refer to stones that form because of urinary tract infections
(UTIs) with urease-producing bacteria, secondarily infected stones of any composition, or …

Objective: To review demographics of patients with acute pyelonephritis, their outcomes of
severe upper urinary tract infection, and to identify risk factors for long hospital stay and …

Purpose: The combination of sepsis and ureteral calculus is a urological emergency.
Traditional teaching advocates urgent decompression with nephrostomy tube or ureteral …

Purpose Acute pyelonephritis (APN) with obstructive uropathy is not uncommon and often
causes serious conditions including sepsis and septic shock. We assessed the risk factors …

Purpose The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock Task
Force proposed a new definition of sepsis based on the SOFA (Sequential [Sepsis-related] …

Background The impact of early drainage on mortality in patients with obstructive
pyelonephritis with urolithiasis was evaluated. Methods We identified 34,924 patients in the …

Introduction: Although caesarean section rates have been increasing over the years in both
public and private sectors in Hong Kong, there has been a paucity of formal surveys on local …

To identify whether urolithiasis with or without hydronephrosis has an impact on acute
kidney injury (AKI) in patients with urinary tract infection (UTI). This study aimed to identify …

Background Complicated pyelonephritis (cPN), a common cause of hospital admission, is
still a poorly-understood entity given the difficulty involved in its correct definition. The aim of …

The aim of the study was to investigate the epidemiological characteristics of stone
components in patients with urolithiasis and analyze the associations between stone …