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Diabetes Mellitus Does Not Predict Discharge In Hospitalized Patients With Acute Pyelonephritis: A Study From Karachi, Pakistan, Syed Furrukh Omair, Fazal Ur Rehman, Imrana Amin, Syed Ahsan Ali, Bakhtawar J. Rind, Bilal Ahmed Oct 2020

Diabetes Mellitus Does Not Predict Discharge In Hospitalized Patients With Acute Pyelonephritis: A Study From Karachi, Pakistan, Syed Furrukh Omair, Fazal Ur Rehman, Imrana Amin, Syed Ahsan Ali, Bakhtawar J. Rind, Bilal Ahmed

Section of Nephrology

Introduction: The incidence of acute pyelonephritis (APN) in the diabetic population is comparatively higher and tends to be more complicated, with serious outcomes. Although complicated pyelonephritis (PN) needs hospital admission and intravenous antibiotics, the magnitude of hospital stay due to comorbidities is limited. This study's aim was to assess the impact of diabetes mellitus on length of hospital stay among patients with PN.
Methods: We did a retrospective data review of 520 randomly selected hospitalized patients of PN from March 2015 to December 2019 from a tertiary care center. Electronic medical records were used for identifying medical conditions through ICD-10 …