How the abscess of the kidney is manifested and treated

Kidney abscess is an infectious disease that develops as a result of exacerbation of acute purulent pyelonephritis.

Inflammatory process is accompanied by melting of kidney tissues and the appearance of a cavity filled with pus. The diameter of the cavity is a roller of granular( granulation) tissue, separating the lesion from healthy tissues.

What can provoke the development of abscess

The causes of kidney abscess - infection of the urinary tract.

The causative agents of kidney abscess are most often bacteria of the genus Klebsiella, Escherichia coli, Proteus spp, which enter the bloodstream in infections of the urinary tract.

Kidney abscess may develop:

1. in case of urolithiasis;
2. as a result of inflammation of the kidney;
3. for parenteral administration of narcotic drugs;
4. for damage to the urinary tract;
5. in patients with diabetes mellitus;
6. as a complication after a surgical operation to remove stones from the kidneys.

If the abscess is metastatic, pathogenic bacteria can enter the kidneys from inflammatory foci located in other affected organs: from the heart( with septic endocarditis) or from the lungs( with acute purulent destructive pneumonia).

How the disease is manifested

Symptoms of kidney abscess differ little from the characteristic manifestations of acute pyelonephritis. The disease is characterized by a sharp current. The following symptoms are observed:

• a sharp rise in body temperature( from 39-41 degrees), mainly towards evening;
• the patient's body shudders with a chill;
• pulse and breathing of the patient are rapid, dyspnea may develop;
• pain in the lower back and in the kidney area;
• severe headaches;
• vomiting;
• severe muscle weakness( adynamia);
• icteric coloration of the protein shells of the eyes;
• urination is painful, with a trace of blood;
• sometimes patients with kidney abscess press their legs to the stomach: this position facilitates back pain. Extension of the limb causes an attack of acute pain in the affected area.

If the kidney abscess is bilateral, there is acute renal and hepatic insufficiency and intoxication of the body.

Ways of detecting the disease

At the initial stage, diagnosis is difficult due to the fact that in the clinical course of the disease the symptoms of acute pyelonephritis prevail.

• When examining a patient, an enlarged painful kidney is felt and an increase in pain in the lumbar region is observed as a result of slight effleurage( a positive symptom of Pasternatsky) followed by the appearance of erythrocytes in the urine.
• The survey urogram shows the deviation of the spinal column towards the affected kidney, the enlargement of the kidneys. There is no shadow of the lumbar muscle.
• Excretory urographs reveal deterioration of the kidney( up to its complete cessation).Respiratory excursion of the kidneys is essentially limited( or absent).The renal pelvis and its calyces are compressed.
• Computed tomography allows you to trace the direction of development of the inflammatory process in surrounding organs and tissues. The
• ultrasound detects a rounded neoplasm, filled with uniform contents with reduced echogenicity and localization of pus in the kidney area.

Existing treatments for

Treatment of a kidney abscess in a conservative way( with the use of pharmacotherapy and herbal medicine) most often( in 75% of cases) entails the death of a patient, so in this case we can talk about the low effectiveness of etiotropic and palliative therapy.

An effective method of treatment of kidney abscess can be considered only an emergency surgical intervention.

The operation in kidney abscess is to eliminate( decapsulate) the non-stretchable fibrous capsule of the kidney, which exerts additional pressure on edematous tissue. During the operation, the fibrous capsule is gently dissected with a scalpel in the region of the lower segment of the kidney and removed.

Then follows the opening of the abscess followed by the treatment of the resulting cavity with a disinfectant solution. Wide drainage of the cavity and retroperitoneal space is carried out with the help of drainage tubes and rubber-gauze swabs.

The purpose of drainage is to remove pus from the kidneys. The pus extracted from the kidney is subjected to research, during which the susceptibility of pathogenic bacteria to the action of antibiotics is revealed. The given analyzes allow to appoint effective medicamental treatment directed on destruction of the originator of disease.

If the patient's state of health allows, in the course of surgical intervention, stones removed from the ureter that prevent the normal removal of urine from the body. This removes the main cause of urinary tract infection.

If, for objective reasons, this is not possible, the stone removal operation is carried out 2 months after the patient's condition has stabilized. After that, the external urinary fistula( nephro-pyloric) is healed.

In case of irreversible changes in the parenchyma, the kidney is removed.

Further follows antibacterial and detoxification treatment.

The prognosis of surgical treatment largely depends on the timeliness of seeking medical help. Despite progressive medical technologies, mortality in kidney abscess is high enough, so immediate surgical intervention can save the patient's life. In case of delay, sepsis may develop, which is fraught with a fatal outcome.

With timely access to a doctor( urologist), correctly chosen tactics of treatment of acute pyelonephritis( conservative or operative), kidney abscess can be avoided.