Case Reports in Medicine (Jan 2013)

Gas-Producing Renal Infection Presenting as Pneumaturia: A Case Report

  • Youssef S. Tanagho,
  • Jonathan M. Mobley,
  • Brian M. Benway,
  • Alana C. Desai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/730549
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2013

Abstract

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We present a case of persistent pneumaturia of one-year duration in a fifty-five-year-old male with a history of spinal cord injury. The evaluation demonstrated gas throughout the collecting system attributable to a urinary tract infection with a gas-forming organism, Klebsiella pneumoniae.