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What Does A Mild Prominent Extrarenal Pelvis Mean?

hello, Dr. I am 26 year old, i have a kidney infection for the past 1year i did scanning and x-ray thy said its pyelonephritis, but last week i did CT SCAN d result is both kidneys are normal in size and shape but a mild prominent extrarenal pelvis seen on the right. Pls Dr. What does it mean? It s curable with antibiotics does it affect d kidney?. I have abdominal, fever pain pls wht is d solution and also wht r d antibiotics? May god bless u.
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You might be having chronic pyelonephritis. Since this has been happening for the last one year therefore there is scarring in the kidneys collection. This scarring can cause a prominent collecting system which can be the reason for appearance on CT. Usually this can happen even after the infection is treated. Since you have an abdominal pain and fever, therefore it is essential to get urine culture is important. Sometimes, with fever a blood culture can also be helpful in the diagnosis of an infection causing organism in blood. Doing antibiotic sensitivity at the same time will give an indication on which antibiotics is to be taken for treatment.
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What Does A Mild Prominent Extrarenal Pelvis Mean?

Hi, Thanks for writing in. You might be having chronic pyelonephritis. Since this has been happening for the last one year therefore there is scarring in the kidneys collection. This scarring can cause a prominent collecting system which can be the reason for appearance on CT. Usually this can happen even after the infection is treated. Since you have an abdominal pain and fever, therefore it is essential to get urine culture is important. Sometimes, with fever a blood culture can also be helpful in the diagnosis of an infection causing organism in blood. Doing antibiotic sensitivity at the same time will give an indication on which antibiotics is to be taken for treatment.