Association Between Abscess Size, Inflammatory Markers, and the Need for Drainage in Renal Abscesses
Dragoș Puia, Marius Ivănuță, Ovidiu Daniel Bîcă, Nicolae Stoican, Mihaela Corlade-Andrei, Bogdan Doroftei, Cătălin Pricop · 2026
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Description
Kidney abscesses force a choice between antibiotics alone and draining the pus, and Puia and co-authors tested what should guide that call. They reviewed 103 adults treated at a Romanian urology clinic between 2020 and 2025. About 58 percent ultimately needed drainage. Size separated the groups sharply: 88 percent of drained abscesses measured at least 50 millimeters, against 9 percent of those managed with drugs alone.
Patients with larger abscesses had lower hemoglobin. White cell counts and C-reactive protein, by contrast, did not predict who needed drainage. The authors conclude that size deserves its central role, while the standard inflammation markers add little here.
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| CREATOR | Dragoș Puia, Marius Ivănuță, Ovidiu Daniel Bîcă, Nicolae Stoican, Mihaela Corlade-Andrei, Bogdan Doroftei, Cătălin Pricop |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |