Abstract

GARCIA DEL VILLAR, Orlando  and  BARRIOS PENA, Katherine. Infecciones del tracto urinario en pediatría: enfoque clínico y seguimiento. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.1, pp.203-211. ISSN 0120-5552.  https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.34.1.10745.

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a frequent pathology in the pediatric age, about 5-8% of children under 2 years of age with fever without defined focus have a UTI, it is a frequent infection, and although most cases have good prognoses, it will always be necessary to identify those patients at risk of permanent and progressive kidney damage. UTI has a high incidence during childhood, appearing in about 7% of febrile children under one year of age and is an indicator of anatomical and functional anomalies. Clinical suspicion will always be important to reach a rapid diagnosis, in order to perform timely treatments and thus reduce kidney damage and complications. In this article we make a particular emphasis on the clinical approach and the follow-up that should be done to a patient with this pathology.

Keywords : Urinary infection; Pediatrics; diagnosis; monitoring and clinical approach.

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