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 recovered on treatment with immunosupressants.
Department of Pediatrics, G. B. Pant Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Hospitals, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
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Sethi
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Infective endocarditis; post-infectious glomerulonephritis; proliferative glomerulonephritis