Post-infectious glomerulonephritis following infective endocarditis: Amenable to immunosuppression

Glomerulonephritis develops in about 20% patients with infective endocarditis (IE), but is mostly asymptomatic. Heavy proteinuria or derangement of kidney functions is uncommon. We report here a child with IE and proliferative glomerulonephritis who manifested as significant proteinuria that recover...

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Autores principales: Mantan, M., Sethi, G. R., Batra, V. V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3764714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24049276
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.116321
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description Glomerulonephritis develops in about 20% patients with infective endocarditis (IE), but is mostly asymptomatic. Heavy proteinuria or derangement of kidney functions is uncommon. We report here a child with IE and proliferative glomerulonephritis who manifested as significant proteinuria that recovered on treatment with immunosupressants.
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spelling pubmed-37647142013-09-18 Post-infectious glomerulonephritis following infective endocarditis: Amenable to immunosuppression Mantan, M. Sethi, G. R. Batra, V. V. Indian J Nephrol Case Report Glomerulonephritis develops in about 20% patients with infective endocarditis (IE), but is mostly asymptomatic. Heavy proteinuria or derangement of kidney functions is uncommon. We report here a child with IE and proliferative glomerulonephritis who manifested as significant proteinuria that recovered on treatment with immunosupressants. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3764714/ /pubmed/24049276 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.116321 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3764714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24049276
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