[Neonatal renal abscess: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. A clinical case]

Arch Argent Pediatr. 2017 Oct 1;115(5):e294-e297. doi: 10.5546/aap.2017.e294.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Renal abscess is a rare disease in newborn, but severe consequences can occur: sepsis with high mortality, renal scar formation and risk of chronic renal failure. A neonate with unilateral renal abscess due to Staphylococcus aureus is reported, with septicemia, with no other suppurative focus, nor with urinary malformation, with good clinical evolution with intravenous antibiotics and without surgical treatment, but with renal scars sequel. From this case, the strategies of diagnosis, treatment and followup of the renal abscess in a neonate are analyzed, emphasizing the early diagnosis to avoid renal scars.

El absceso renal representa una patología infrecuente en el recién nacido. Puede presentar consecuencias graves: sepsis con alta mortalidad, cicatrices renales y riesgo de enfermedad renal crónica. Se reporta sobre un recién nacido con absceso renal unilateral a Staphylococcus aureus, con cuadro de septicemia, sin otro foco supurativo ni malformación urinaria, que evolucionó adecuadamente con antibióticos endovenosos, sin tratamiento quirúrgico, aunque con cicatrices renales como secuela. A partir de este caso, se analizan las estrategias de diagnóstico, tratamiento y seguimiento del absceso renal en un neonato y se destaca el diagnóstico precoz para evitar cicatrices renales.

Keywords: Newborn infant; Renalabscess; Staphylococcus aureus; Treatment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abscess* / diagnosis
  • Abscess* / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Kidney Diseases / diagnosis
  • Kidney Diseases / drug therapy
  • Kidney Diseases / microbiology*
  • Male
  • Staphylococcal Infections* / diagnosis
  • Staphylococcal Infections* / drug therapy