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Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis

The association of glomerular nephritis and infective endocarditis with liver abscesses is a clinically complex entity that often makes the diagnosis challenging. Here, we report a case of a 50-year-old woman who presented with a febrile illness of two weeks' duration along with myalgia and mal...

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Autores principales: Jazeer, Mohamed, Pakkiyaretnam, Mayurathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10597532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37881375
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45860
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description The association of glomerular nephritis and infective endocarditis with liver abscesses is a clinically complex entity that often makes the diagnosis challenging. Here, we report a case of a 50-year-old woman who presented with a febrile illness of two weeks' duration along with myalgia and malaise of four days' duration. She had a background history of well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus for five years with a past history of ischemic heart disease diagnosed five years ago. At the time of presentation, she was on long-term steroids for post-coronavirus disease (COVID) organizing pneumonia diagnosed three months back. With serial investigations, she was found to have subacute bacterial endocarditis with multiple liver and splenic abscesses. She was managed with antibiotics as per local protocols after which she made a successful recovery of her clinical status. The uniqueness of this case is the development of rare complications of subacute bacterial endocarditis in the background of immunosuppression.
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spelling pubmed-105975322023-10-25 Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis Jazeer, Mohamed Pakkiyaretnam, Mayurathan Cureus Internal Medicine The association of glomerular nephritis and infective endocarditis with liver abscesses is a clinically complex entity that often makes the diagnosis challenging. Here, we report a case of a 50-year-old woman who presented with a febrile illness of two weeks' duration along with myalgia and malaise of four days' duration. She had a background history of well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus for five years with a past history of ischemic heart disease diagnosed five years ago. At the time of presentation, she was on long-term steroids for post-coronavirus disease (COVID) organizing pneumonia diagnosed three months back. With serial investigations, she was found to have subacute bacterial endocarditis with multiple liver and splenic abscesses. She was managed with antibiotics as per local protocols after which she made a successful recovery of her clinical status. The uniqueness of this case is the development of rare complications of subacute bacterial endocarditis in the background of immunosuppression. Cureus 2023-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10597532/ /pubmed/37881375 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45860 Text en Copyright © 2023, Jazeer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Jazeer, Mohamed
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Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis
title Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis
title_full Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis
title_fullStr Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis
title_full_unstemmed Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis
title_short Infective Endocarditis Following Post-COVID Organizing Pneumonia Complicated by Multiple Splenic Abscesses and Glomerular Nephritis
title_sort infective endocarditis following post-covid organizing pneumonia complicated by multiple splenic abscesses and glomerular nephritis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10597532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37881375
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45860
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