Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library School of Medicine January 2013 Identification Of Factors Associated With Acute Pyelonephritis Complicated By Ureteral Stones Warren Perry Follow this and additional works at: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl Recommended Citation Perry, Warren, "Identification Of Factors Associated With Acute Pyelonephritis Complicated By Ureteral Stones" (2013). Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library. 1831. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl/1831 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Medicine at EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library by an authorized administrator of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Identification of Factors Associated with Acute Pyelonephritis Complicated by Ureteral Stones A Thesis Submitted to the Yale University School of Medicine in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine by Warren M. Perry, II 2013 ABSTRACT IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS COMPLICATED BY URETERAL STONES Warren M. Perry, II1, Brock Daniels1, Annette Molinaro2, Cary Gross1, Christopher L. Moore1. 1Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 2University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA In theory, the evaluation of acute pyelonephritis (APN) does not require imaging, but in practice computed tomography (CT) may be ordered because of fear of an obstructing ureteral calculus that may present with similar symptoms. Childbearing age women are susceptible to the radiation exposure of CT imaging and have the highest incidence for APN.