Acute pyelonephritis

Consultant Renal Physician

Honorary Associate Professor

Nephrology Department

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Leeds

UK

Disclosures

AL is Associate Clinical Director of NIHR Leeds In-Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative, Co-Chair of UK Kidney Research Consortium Renal Clinical Study Group, Member of Kidney Research UK Research Grant Committee, Committee Member of NICE Kidney Injury Clinical Guideline Update 2018-20, Committee Member of NICE Diagnostic Assessment for Point of Care Creatinine Testing 2018-19. AL attended the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative Meeting in San Diego 2018 (accommodation expenses); AL was a speaker at the AKI & CRRT Conference in San Diego 2019 (travel and accommodation expenses), the AKI Conference in Coventry 2019 (travel expenses), and the NIHR AKI and Sepsis Meeting in Leeds 2019 (no expenses).

BMJ Best Practice would like to gratefully acknowledge the previous expert contributor, whose work has been retained in parts of the content:

Lynda A. Frassetto, MD

Professor of Medicine

Division of Nephrology

University of California

San Francisco

CA

LAF declares that she has no competing interests.

Section Editor, BMJ Best Practice

Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Royal London Hospital

London

UK

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TD declares that she has no competing interests.

Section Editor, BMJ Best Practice

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Lead Section Editor, BMJ Best Practice

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Lead Section Editor, BMJ Best Practice

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RW declares that she has no competing interests.

Comorbidities Editor, BMJ Best Practice

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Drug Editor, BMJ Best Practice

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