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- Published: September 13, 2019
- By: Vanessa Moreno, MD
- Tags: Acute kidney injury, Glomerulonephritis, infective endocarditis, Necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis
ANSWER: B In a case series by Boils et al. which included 49 patients with GN due to IE, the most common biopsy finding was necrotizing and crescentic GN which was found in 53% of the cases. This was followed by endocapillary proliferative GN in 37% of the biopsies. Reference: Boils CL, et al. Update on endocarditis-associated glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int. 2015; 87(6):1241-1249.