High prevalence of upper urinary tract involvement detected by 111indium-oxine leukocyte scintigraphy in patients with candiduria

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012 Mar;31(3):237-42. doi: 10.1007/s10096-011-1299-6. Epub 2011 Jun 2.

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation was to assess the prevalence of upper urinary tract involvement in patients with candiduria by means of (111)indium-oxine-labeled leukocyte scintigraphy. An observational cohort study of patients with confirmed candiduria was conducted in an acute-care teaching hospital in Spain from March 2006 through February 2009. An (111)In-labeled leukocyte scan was performed in order to assess the upper urinary tract involvement. A series of non-matched patients without candiduria nor bacteriuria undergoing scintigraphy to exclude infections in other sites than the urinary tract was also studied. Demographics, baseline illness, and clinical data were recorded. Candiduria was detected in 428 patients, and scintigraphy was performed in 35 of these patients. Twenty-nine patients without candiduria nor bacteriuria were also studied. Positive renal scintigraphy was documented in 24 (68%) patients with confirmed candiduria and in 3 (10%) patients without candiduria (p < 0.005). Renal uptake was not associated with a higher mortality nor with re-admissions. Subclinical pyelonephritis could be more frequent in patients with candiduria than it has been previously considered.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
  • Candida / isolation & purification
  • Candida / pathogenicity
  • Candidiasis / diagnosis*
  • Candidiasis / diagnostic imaging
  • Candidiasis / epidemiology*
  • Cohort Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Indium / chemistry
  • Indium / metabolism
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prevalence
  • Pyelonephritis / complications
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Spain / epidemiology
  • Urinary Tract / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Tract / microbiology
  • Urinary Tract / pathology
  • Urinary Tract Infections / diagnosis*
  • Urinary Tract Infections / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Tract Infections / drug therapy
  • Urinary Tract Infections / epidemiology

Substances

  • Indium
  • indium oxide
  • Amphotericin B