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Urinary tract infections in children

最后审阅: 13 Feb 2025
最后更新: 07 Feb 2025

小结

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • fever >102.2°F (>39°C)
  • irritability (neonates and infants)
  • poor feeding (neonates and infants)
  • suprapubic tenderness
  • costovertebral angle tenderness
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Other diagnostic factors

  • foul-smelling urine (infants, older children, and adolescents)
  • dysuria (preschool age, older children, and adolescents)
  • urinary frequency (older children and adolescents)
  • abdominal/flank pain (infants, older children, and adolescents)
  • vomiting
  • ill appearance (neonates)
  • gross hematuria (older children and adolescents)
  • new-onset urinary incontinence (toddlers, older children, and adolescents)
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Risk factors

  • age <1 year
  • female sex
  • uncircumcised boys in the first year of life
  • previous UTI
  • bladder and bowel dysfunction
  • vesicoureteral reflux
  • sexual activity
  • no history of breastfeeding
  • anatomic abnormalities or previous surgery to the urinary tract
  • immunosuppression
  • protein-energy malnutrition
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • urine dipstick
  • urine microscopy
  • urine culture
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Tests to consider

  • urine flow cytometry
  • blood culture
  • complete blood count
  • inflammatory markers
  • fungus urine culture
  • serum creatinine, BUN and electrolytes
  • renal and/or bladder ultrasound
  • dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scan
  • voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG)
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Treatment algorithm

INITIAL

vesicoureteral reflux: no history of febrile UTIs

ACUTE

age ≤2 months

age >2 months

ONGOING

recurrent UTIs

Contributors

Authors

Joana Dos Santos, MD, MHSc, FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Medical Pediatric Urologist

The Hospital for Sick Children

Toronto

Ontario

Canada

Disclosures

JDS declares that she has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Joana Dos Santos would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Beatrice Goilav, Dr Frederick Kaskel, Dr Mary Anne Jackson, and Dr Rene VanDeVoorde, previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

BG, FK, MAJ, and RV declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Martin Koyle, MD, MSc, FAAP, FACS, FRCS(Eng), FRCSC

Professor

Department of Surgery and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

Staff Pediatric Urologist

The Hospital for Sick Children

Toronto

Ontario

Canada

Disclosures

MK declares that he has no competing interests.

Daniel T. Keefe, MD, FRCSC

Pediatric Urology Fellow

The Hospital for Sick Children

Toronto

Ontario

Canada

利益声明

DTK declares that he has no competing interests.

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