Perfil de los pacientes pediátricos con diagnóstico de infección de vías urinarios en el Hospital Departamental Universitario del Quindío San Juan de Dios entre 2017 y 2019

Abstract

Objective: Urinary tract infection is the second most frequent infectious pathology in childhood. This study seeks to establish the clinical and microbiological profile of urinary tract infections in pediatric patients at the Hospital Departamental Universitario del Quindío San Juan de Dios.
 Materials and methods: Retrospective descriptive observational study. By reviewing the medical records of patients between 0 and 16 years old with a diagnosis of urinary tract infection. Clinical, paraclinical and microbiological variables were obtained. An exploratory analysis was initially performed, followed by a multivariate analysis.
 Results: Data from 200 patients were included, predominantly female and infants patients. The main symptom at the time of consultation was fever. The main pathogen causing the infection was E. coli. The most used antibiotic was Amikacin (60.7%). ESBL was the most commonly found resistance profile (42.5%). 11 patients required antibiotic therapy guided by antibiogram, Amikacin being the most used (41.7%).
 Conclusions: Escherichia coli is the most isolated microorganism, presenting a low profile of bacterial resistance, which allows a better orientation of empirical antibiotic therapy. Amikacin was the most widely used antibiotic, showing very low resistance rates. Longer-duration regimens showed similar characteristics to shorter-duration regimens, which could support shorter regimens, but higher studies are required to prove this.