Bacteriuria and Pyelonephritis of Pregnancy

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Abstract
Pyelonephritis is the most frequent medi-*• cal cause of hospitalization during pregnancy.1 Physiologic changes within the urinary tract that may predispose to pyelonephritis occur in all pregnant women.2 It is not clear, however, why acute symptomatic pyelonephritis develops in some and not in others. If it were possible to detect the cases in which pyelonephritis of pregnancy is destined to develop, preventive treatment could be given to eliminate the morbidity of acute infections during pregnancy and the hazards of any possible late complications.Kass3 has reported that about 6 or 7 per cent of pregnant women attending the Boston City . . .

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