Hegel Trujillo-Santamaría, José Iván Robles-Torres, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Yiloren Tanidir, José Gadú Campos-Salcedo, Edgar Iván Bravo-Castro, Marcelo Langer Wroclawski, W S Yeoh, Santosh Kumar, Juan Eduardo Sanchez-Nuñez, José Enrique Espinoza-Aznar, Deepak Ragoori, Saeed Bin Hamri, Ong Teng Aik, Cecil Paul Tarot-Chocooj, Anil Shrestha, Mohamed Amine Lakmichi, Mateus Cosentino-Bellote, Luis Gabriel Vázquez-Lavista, Boukary Kabre, Ho Yee Tiong, José Gustavo Arrambide-Herrera, Lauro Salvador Gómez-Guerra, Umut Kutukoglu, Joao Arthur Brunhara Alves-Barbosa, Jorge Jaspersen, Christian Acevedo, Francisco Virgen-Gutiérrez, Sumit Agrawal, Hugo Octaviano Duarte-Santos, Chai Chu Ann, Daniele Castellani, Vineet Gahuar
BACKGROUND: Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a necrotizing infection of the kidney and the surrounding tissues associated with considerable mortality. We aimed to formulate a score that classifies the risk of mortality in patients with EPN at hospital admission. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients diagnosed with EPN between 2013 and 2020 were retrospectively included. Data from 15 centers (70%) were used to develop the scoring system, and data from 7 centers (30%) were used to validate it...
March 2024: Current Urology