Encrusting Cystitis Due to Corynebacterium urealyticum in a Patient with ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-300

  Pagnoux, Christian ^a   Bérezné, Alice ^a   Damade, Richard ^b   Paillot, Jacques ^c   Aouizerate, Jessie ^a   Le Guern, Véronique ^a   Salmon, Dominique ^a   Guillevin, Loïc ^a  

^a Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris Université Paris Descartes ^*  (France)

^b Hopital Louis Pasteur   (France)

^c Division of Urology   (France)

Author keywords

ANCA associated vasculitis; Corynebacterium urealyticum encrusting cystitis; Immunosuppression; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GENTAMICIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; NITROFURANTOIN; OFLOXACIN; PIPEMIDIC ACID; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM ENCRUSTING CYSTITIS; CYSTITIS; CYSTOSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY RENAL SYNDROME; PURPURIC RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 80755163502     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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