Y. Fukumoto et al., ACUTE TUBULOINTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH YERSINIA-PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTION, Pediatric nephrology, 9(1), 1995, pp. 78-80
A 4-year-old girl was diagnosed as having acute renal failure due to t
ubulointerstitial nephritis. The girl presented with remittent fever,
vomiting and non-oliguric acute renal failure with sterile pyuria and
tubular reabsorptive dysfunction. Ultrasound examination revealed that
the kidneys were markedly enlarged with diffuse hyperechogenicity in
the cortex when the abnormal renal function was present and were resto
red in size and echogenicity when the renal function normalised. A dia
gnosis of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection was based on a rise in
haemagglutination titres against the organism.