A rare association of emphysematous pyelonephritis with unrecognized diabetes and polycystic kidney Azzini AM et al. - The authors report here the case of a 51 year-old woman with a rare association of unrecognized diabetes and bilateral polycystic kidney disease who developed monolateral EPN. This case report is somewhat unique because of the unusual association between undetected diabetes and polycystic kidney as predisposing factors of a severe infection of the urinary tract. [more...]