Overview
- 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.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Clinicians’ Current Perspectives on Urinary Tract Infections
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Imaging of Upper Urinary Tract Infections
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Imaging of Lower Urinary and Male Genital Tract Infections
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About this book
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 presentsthe 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.
Reviews
“The importance of radiology in understanding and recognising the acutely ill patient with urosepsis and the role of interventional radiologyin their management cannot be underestimated, and recognition of this will no doubt fuel interest in this comprehensive yet relatively concise book.” (Dr Steven Kennish, RAD Magazine, March, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imaging and Intervention in Urinary Tract Infections and Urosepsis
Editors: Massimo Tonolini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68276-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68275-4Published: 24 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88574-2Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68276-1Published: 12 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 246
Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Diagnostic Radiology, Urology, Nephrology