Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis complicating Legionnaires' disease: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Daumas, Aurélie ^a   El Mekaoui, Fadwa ^a   Bataille, Stanislas ^a   Daniel, Laurent ^b   Caporossi, Jean Marie ^a   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^b,c   Burtey, Stéphane ^a   Dussol, Bertrand ^a   Berland, Yvon ^a   Jourde Chiche, Noémie ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

acute renal failure; Legionnaires' disease; renal biopsy; tubulointerstitial nephritis

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; ERYTHROMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANURIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84859189199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-6-100     Document Type: Article

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