Abstract

The Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is one of the most common infectious diseases in children. Vesicouretral reflux and urogenital malformations are amongst the most significant risk factors. The imagenological studies are essen­tial to detect possible anatomical or functional urological abnormalities. Within them, renal ultrasound (US) has the best cost-benefit relation. Objective: Describe the characteristics and results of renal and vesical ultrasound done on patients hospitalized in Hospital San Miguel de Quillota (HSMQ) during 2014, diagnosed with UTI. Ma­terial and methods: Descriptive study, cases study includes hospitalized children under the diagnose of UTI in the Pediatric Service of HSMQ during 2014. Results: 99 patients entered with the diagnose of UTI, 27 cases were excluded, with 72 patient which met the inclusion criteria: 71% of them were female and 76% were infants. From the total of US, 55% were normal, 31% showed acute pyelonephritis (APN) and 14% anatomical abnormalities, where duplicated collecting system was the highest frequency condition. Discussion: There were similar results in literature that showed 12-15% of altered ultrasound compared to 14% obtained in this study.

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