Culture-negative subacute bacterial endocarditis masquerades as granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s granulomatosis) involving both the kidney and lung

BACKGROUND: Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) occasionally exhibits positive cytoplasmic anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (c-ANCA) of the anti-proteinase-3 (PR-3) type. Clinically, it mimics ANCA-associated vasculitis, such as Wegener's disease with glomerulonephritis. Lung abscesses ar...

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Autores principales: Peng, Hui, Chen, Wen-fang, Wu, Chao, Chen, Yan-ru, Peng, Bo, Paudel, Sujay Dutta, Lou, Tan-qi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23268737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-13-174

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