Published online February 29, 2008
PEDIATRICS Vol. 121 No. 3 March 2008, pp. 653 (doi:10.1542/peds.2007-3428)
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Does Early Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection Prevent Renal Damage?

Horace Norman Noe, MD, FAAP
Department of Urology
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN 38163

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To the Editor.—

Doganis et al1 reported a prospective series of treating infants with pyelonephritis and concluded that early treatment does not improve long-term renal scarring. If this is confirmed, it is discouraging because the opposite was thought to be true. The numbers were small in some groups, so a larger study of a longer . . . [Full Text of this Article]