Candida causing emphysematous pyelonephritis: a rare complication of diabetes mellitus

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Candida causing emphysematous pyelonephritis: a rare complication of diabetes mellitus
Indian J Nephrol 2002;12: 56-58

S Sankar, FR Nadvi, S Chandy, J Vincet
Department of Medicine, St John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore

Abstract
Emphysematous pyelonephritis is an acute necrotising parenchymal and perlrenal
infiltration by gas producing uropathogens. This is a rare complication of diabetes mellitus with a mortality rate of 80 % in severe cases. We report a case of bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis in a 56 year old diabetic lady. Her cultures grew Candida a rare causative organism.

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