Prognosis of Childhood Urinary-Tract Infection

Abstract

THERE has been increasing awareness of the potential danger that symptomatic and asymptomatic infections of the urinary tract may lead to renal failure and death. This has stimulated the production of new antibacterial drugs and their longer and more carefully supervised administration. Improved diagnostic procedures have also been devised for detection of urinary-tract abnormalities, and new surgical approaches for their correction. Records of long-term results of the new methods of medical and surgical therapy will soon be available. For their evaluation, it will be necessary to have an appraisal of the natural history of urinary-tract infections in the child before . . .