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Record W2087143494 · doi:10.5489/cuaj.10024

Emphysematous pyelitis, ureteritis and cystitis

2010· article· en· W2087143494 on OpenAlexaffvenue
James W. Wong, Kenneth T. Pace

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Urological Association Journal · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInfectious Disease Case Reports and Treatments
Canadian institutionsSt. Michael's HospitalQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineDysuriaPercutaneous nephrostomyNephrostomySurgeryUreterExtracorporeal shock wave lithotripsyUrinalysisUrologyEmergency departmentUrinary systemLithotripsyPercutaneousInternal medicine

Abstract

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A 36-year-old man with a history of gout and a congenital solitary right kidney with chronic hydronephrosis and non-obstructive megaureter of unknown etiology presented initially with a stone on KUB and flank pain. A computed tomography (CT) scan showed a right-sided calculus which was treated with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and alkalinization therapy. Several weeks post-treatment, he presented to the emergency department with cloudy urine and dysuria. His urinalysis demonstrated pyruia and hematuria. He was empirically started on ciprofloxacin, but returned to the emergency department several days later with fevers, chills and rigors but no flank pain. His creatinine had risen from 109 mmol/L at baseline to 266 mmol/L, and his white blood cell count was 15.6 × 106/L. A CT scan failed to show any residual calculi; however, it demonstrated emphysematous pyelitis (Fig. 1, arrow) with concomitant emphysematous ureteritis and cystitis (Fig. 2, arrows). His urine culture revealed a multi-drug resistant E Coli and a percutaneous nephrostomy tube was arranged after a ureteric stent insertion was unsuccessful. His pre-nephrostogram scout x-ray showed a collecting system full of gas (Fig. 3, arrows demonstrating gas in ureter and renal pelvis). He was treated with nephrostomy tube drainage and intravenous ceftriaxone. Within 5 days, he had complete clinical and radiographical resolution of the gas in his collecting system, and his renal function returned to baseline. Subsequent pressure-flow studies of urinary drainage via the nephrostomy tube (Whittaker test) showed no evidence of ureteric obstruction. It is important to distinguish emphysematous pyelitis (gas in the collecting system) from emphysematous pyelonephritis (gas in the renal parenchyma), as the latter can be more severe. Fig. 1 The computed tomography scan with the arrow pointing to the emphysematous pyelitis. Fig. 2 The computed tomography scan with the arrows pointing to the emphysematous ureteritis and cystitis. Fig. 3 The patient’s pre-nephrostogram with the arrows demonstrating gas in the ureter and renal pelvis. Empysematous pyelitis is due to E. coli infection in 69% of cases and typically responds promptly to medical therapy.1

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.081
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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