PR3-ANCA-positive crescentic necrotizing glomerulonephritis accompanied by isolated pulmonic valve infective endocarditis, with reference to previous reports of renal pathology

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 202-209

  Fukuda, Michio ^a   Motokawa, M ^a   Usami, T ^a   Oikawa, T ^a   Morozumi, K ^b   Yoshida, A ^a   Kimura, G ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glomerulonephritis; Infective endocarditis; PR3 ANCA; Pulmonic valve

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; FOCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PULMONARY VALVE; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SACROILIITIS; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 33748670283     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/cnp66202     Document Type: Article

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