Renal Interstitial Invasion by Group A Streptococcus: A Rare Presentation

We report the case of a 5-year-old who had interstitial invasion of his kidneys with group A Streptococcus (GAS). Glomeruli and tubules were relatively preserved. He recovered from this event and was admitted a couple of months later with dilated cardiomyopathy needing a heart transplant. To our kno...

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Autores principales: Lomanta, Francis, Upadhyayula, Shankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9110243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35586457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5881375
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description We report the case of a 5-year-old who had interstitial invasion of his kidneys with group A Streptococcus (GAS). Glomeruli and tubules were relatively preserved. He recovered from this event and was admitted a couple of months later with dilated cardiomyopathy needing a heart transplant. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of direct invasion of renal interstitium by GAS.
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spelling pubmed-91102432022-05-17 Renal Interstitial Invasion by Group A Streptococcus: A Rare Presentation Lomanta, Francis Upadhyayula, Shankar Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report We report the case of a 5-year-old who had interstitial invasion of his kidneys with group A Streptococcus (GAS). Glomeruli and tubules were relatively preserved. He recovered from this event and was admitted a couple of months later with dilated cardiomyopathy needing a heart transplant. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of direct invasion of renal interstitium by GAS. Hindawi 2022-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9110243/ /pubmed/35586457 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5881375 Text en Copyright © 2022 Francis Lomanta and Shankar Upadhyayula. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Renal Interstitial Invasion by Group A Streptococcus: A Rare Presentation
title_full Renal Interstitial Invasion by Group A Streptococcus: A Rare Presentation
title_fullStr Renal Interstitial Invasion by Group A Streptococcus: A Rare Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Renal Interstitial Invasion by Group A Streptococcus: A Rare Presentation
title_short Renal Interstitial Invasion by Group A Streptococcus: A Rare Presentation
title_sort renal interstitial invasion by group a streptococcus: a rare presentation
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