A Case of Emphysematous Pyelonephritis in a Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Patient Successfully Treated by Medical Treatment / 대한신장학회잡지

ABSTRACT

Emphysematous pyelonephritis is an uncommon and potentially life-threatening infectious disease. Although there is still controversy about optimal treatment of emphysematous pyelonephritis, published results indicate that the mortality rate in the patients treated with radical nephrectomy is equivalent to that in patients given more conservative treatment. Emphysematous pyelonephritis with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is extremely rare and its clinical course is not revealed clearly. Hearin, we report an emphysematous pyelonephritis in a 64- year-old female patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, successfully treated by antibiotics and percutaneous cyst drainage.