Antimicrobial Stewardship and Prognostic Interpretation in Emphysematous Pyelonephritis: Considerations Arising from a Recent Case Series [Letter]
Meral Çeker, Gökhan Çeker · 2026
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Meral Çeker and Gökhan Çeker wrote a 2026 letter to the editor about a recent case series on emphysematous pyelonephritis. That is a severe, gas-forming kidney infection. They praise the series as one of the largest recent single-centre ones from mainland China. But they question two of its conclusions.
First, the letter cautions against building antibiotic recommendations on only twelve culture-positive cases. Two suggested drugs were tested against just five and eight isolates. Local susceptibility data, they argue, should support rather than replace wider evidence and guidelines. Second, they highlight that seven of eleven diabetic patients in the series used a class of diabetes drugs called SGLT2 inhibitors. They say that finding deserves more attention in judging risk.
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| CREATOR | Meral Çeker, Gökhan Çeker |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4685 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |