Acute Focal Bacterial Nephritis in a Patient with Solitary Kidney: Case Report

Introduction: Acute focal bacterial nephritis is an underdiagnosed condition. It clinically resembles acute pyelonephritis. If unrecognized and undertreated, it may progress into complications (kidney abscess and scars). Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) reveals specific images of the disease and is considered the gold standard to make the diagnosis. Case Report: A 63-year-old male patient with solitary kidney presented with symptoms compatible with acute pyelonephritis. Kidney ultrasound was not conclusive. Because of persisting high-grade fever not resolving after 48 hours of antibiotics, a contrast-enhanced CT was then performed, and the diagnosis of acute focal bacterial nephritis was made. A repeat CT after three weeks of intravenous (IV) antibiotics showed marked improvement of the intrarenal lesions, and a fourth week of IV antibiotics was dispensed.Conclusion: Diagnosing acute focal bacterial nephritis is important (particularly in a patient with solitary kidney). This will dictate the therapy duration. Unlike acute pyelonephritis, acute focal bacterial nephritis requires at least three weeks duration of antibiotics to avoid progress into further complications.&nbsp

Face Detection and Count Estimates in Surveillance Color Images

Face detection has various applications in many areas, an important example of which is security- related surveillance in confined areas. Once an image is analyzed for faces detection, the faces in the image are tallied. In this paper, color segmentation is used as a first step in the face detection process followed by grouping likely face regions into clusters of connected pixels. Median filtering is then performed to eliminate the small clusters and the resulting blobs are matched against a face pattern (ellipse) subjected to constraints for rejecting non-face blobs. The system was implemented and validated via numerical test cases for images with different formats, sizes, number of people, and complexity of the image background. Numerical results suggest that the proposed approach correctly detects and counts non-dark faces with reasonable background complexity

Estimation of reduction of glomerular filtration rate in renal colic patients

Purpose: The aim of current study was to evaluate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline in patients with renal colic. Materials and methods: This descriptive analytical study was conducted on patients with definitive diagnosis of renal colic in university hospital of Sharjah. Data including gender, age, and underlying disease were extracted from medical records. GFR and creatinine level were assessed before and 3 months after stone excretion. Hydronephrosis severity was assessed by ultrasound procedure. Results: In current study, 224 patients with renal colic and mean age 45.6±11.35 years old were selected. The mean GFR before and 3 months after urinary stone excretion were 45.89±18.84 and 61.13±22.10 ml/minute, respectively (P<0.01). The mean creatinine at the beginning and 3 months after urinary stone excretion was 1.93±0.46 and 1.59±0.43 mg/dl, respectively (P<0.01). The most frequency of patients with different hydronephrosis degrees was related to score 3 (n=92). There was significant difference between hydronephrosis severity in terms of GFR (P=0.000). No significant difference was seen between the mean GFR at the beginning of the study and at 3 months after urinary stone excretion in terms of diabetes and hypertension (P>0.05). Conclusion: We observed significant difference between hydronephrosis severity in terms of GFR.&nbsp