title: [Diagnosis and conservative treatment of acute pyelonephritis in diabetes mellitus].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To raise efficacy of conservative treatment of patients with acute pyelonephritis (AP) which developed in the presence of diabetes mellitus (DM).
  
  
  METHODS
  Elderly patients (n = 218, 182 females and 36 males) with DM and AP enered the study. DM type 1 and 2 were diagnosed in 41 and 177 of them. Pyelonephritis was diffuse-purulent, pyodestructive, calculous, pyocalculous.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Conservative treatment was made in 160 patients, surgical treatment--in 58. Lethal outcomes (14 cases) were registered as a rule in patients with bilateral pyodestructive pyelonephritis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  AP is a severe complication of DM. The severity of DM decompensation and metabolic disorders is proportional to AP severity. AP in diebetics runs often an asymptomatic course and the diagnosis is difficult. Therapeutic policy is individual with consideration of a clinical course. Positive results were achieved in 80% patients.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Dovlatian
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kasabov
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002511:Cephalosporins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007681:Kidney Papillary Necrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D002511:Cephalosporins