Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) : Complications
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Complications could include:
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Recurrent urinary tract infections
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Chronic or recurrent urinary tract infection - defined as at least twoinfections in 6 months or at least three in 1 year; Complicated UTI; Kidney infection.
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Chronic urinary tract infection is a disorder involving repeated or prolonged bacterial infection of the bladder or lower urinary tract (urethra).
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Pyelonephritis is an infection of the kidney and the ducts that carry urine away from the kidney (ureters).
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Kidney infection is a general term used to describe infection of the kidney by bacteria, fungi, or viruses. The infecting microbe may have invaded the kidney from the urinary bladder or from the bloodstream.
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A urinary tract infection, or UTI, is an infection that can happen anywhere along the urinary tract -- the kidneys, the ureters (the tubes that take urine from each kidney to the bladder), the bladder, or the urethra (the tube that empties urine from the bladder to the outside).
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