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Endocarditis-Associated Glomerulonephritis
The patient is a 45-year-old IV drug user who presents with fevers, chills, hematuria, and fatigue. On laboratory testing, he…
Disease Week: Bacterial infection-associated glomerulonephritis and endocarditis-associated glomerulonephritis
Monday Renal disease related to infective endocarditis was first reported over 100 years ago. However, the initial literature describing nephritis…
Diagnose This (June 24, 2019)
Immunofluorescence shows C3 (2-3+), IgM (1+), kappa (trace) and lambda (trace). What is your diagnosis? …
Renal Arterial Thromboemboli
Infective endocarditis can have numerous deleterious effects on the kidney. One such renal complication is the formation of arterial thromboemboli.…
Twitter Poll (July 18, 2018)
ANSWER: 20-30% In a case series by Boils et al. which included 49 patients with GN due to IE, 28%…
Infective Endocarditis-Associated Glomerulonephritis
This renal biopsy was taken from a 35 year old male with history of intravenous drug abuse and MRSA tricuspid…
Endocarditis
Crescentic glomerulonephritis is most commonly an autoimmune-related glomerulonephritis (e.g. ANCA, anti-GBM disease, lupus nephritis). However, a recent case series (reference…
