Imaging and Intervention in Urinary Tract Infections and Urosepsis

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ISBN:	331968275X
ISBN 13:	9783319682754
Herausgeber:	Massimo Tonolini
Verlag:	Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang:	vi, 246 S., 95 s/w Illustr., 17 farbige Illustr., 246 p. 112 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.01.2018
Auflage:	1/2018
Produktform:	Gebunden/Hardback
Einband:	Gebunden

Aimed at practicing clinicians and radiologists, this volume provides up-to-date, detailed information on potentially severe urinary tract infections (UTIs), which frequently require intensive in-patient antibiotic therapy, percutaneous or surgical treatment. UTIs are the most prevalent infectious illness, and account for hundreds of thousands of emergency and hospital admissions yearly. Furthermore, UTIs are the most common (almost 40%) type of hospital-acquired infections, with bladder catheterisation being the key risk factor. According to the European Association of Urology guidelines, complicated urinary tract infections (C-UTIs) are those associated with structural or functional genitourinary abnormalities or with conditions that impair the host’s defence mechanisms, leading to an increased risk of acquiring infection or therapy failure. Besides offering current perspectives from urologists, nephrologists, and specialists in infectious diseases, the book presents the techniques and highlights the role of ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound, nuclear medicine, multidetector computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in providing comprehensive investigations of upper and lower tract UTIs, and of systemic infections from unknown sources. Cross-sectional imaging is currently recommended to confirm UTI, to assess severity and look for underlying treatable structural or functional abnormalities, in order to provide a consistent basis for a correct therapeutic choice. Furthermore, dedicated chapters illustrate the current status of UTI imaging in children and the expanding role and possibilities of interventional radiology in the treatment of severe urinary tract infections.

Artikelnummer: 2769776 Kategorie: Klinische Fächer

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

Offers up-to-date clinical perspectives on urinary infections: from nephrologists, urologists and infectious disease specialists. Explains the current role of CT and MRI imaging in the assessment of patients with complicated urinary infections and urosepsis. Presents cross-sectional imaging appearances of upper and lower urinary infections.

Autorenporträt

Dr Massimo Tonolini is a radiologist at the Luigi Sacco University Hospital in Milan, and mainly specializes in gastrointestinal and urogenital imaging. He received the Cum Laude Award at the RSNA Congress in 2002. He has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals, the vast majority of them in peer-reviewed international journals. In addition, he has edited the following books with Springer: Imaging of perianal inflammatory diseases (2013), Imaging of ulcerative colitis (2014) and Imaging complications of gastrointestinal and biliopancreatic endoscopy procedures (2016).