Urinary tract infection (UTI) in Newborns : Risk Factors, Identification and Prevention of Consequences

The aim of the study is identification of urinary tract infection and urinary tract anomalies already in the perinatal period.Family history data, certain conditions in pregnancy and appertaining symptoms in children were elaborated to specify selective distinctive criteria for children at risk. The frequency of UTI amounted to 4, 5%, UTA was found in 29, 6%. The infection was more likely to appear among newborns with UTA in their families, a UTI, pre-eclampsia and a febrile infection in mother, IUGR, RVP, umbilical cord strangulation, jaundice, cyanosis, breathing difficulties and asphyxia.