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Diagnostic and treatment challenge of unrecognized subacute bacterial endocarditis associated with ANCA-PR3 positive immunocomplex glomerulonephritis: a case report and literature review

BMC Nephrology, 2020
Background Diagnosis and treatment of either ANCA disease or silent infection-related glomerulonephritis is complicated and is a huge treatment challenge when overlapping clinical manifestations occur.
D. Bele, N. Kojc, M. Perše, A. Černe Čerček, J. Lindič, A. Aleš Rigler, Ž. Večerić-Haler   +6 more
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Granulicatella adiacens Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis Presenting as Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage and Infection-Related Glomerulonephritis

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2022
We present a case of a 69-year-old male with a past medical history of prostate cancer, chronic mitral valve regurgitation, and recent dental cleaning who presented to the hospital with shortness of breath, anemia, and acute renal failure.
Kevin Dao, Pooja Patel, Kunjan Udani, Erin Pollock, Maryam Gondal   +4 more
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Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Cardiobacterium hominis: A Case Report

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2015
Cardiobacterium hominis, a member of the HACEK group of organisms, is an uncommon but important cause of subacute bacterial endocarditis. First-line therapy is a third-generation cephalosporin due to rare beta-lactamase production.
Davie Wong, Julie Carson, Andrew Johnson
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Penicillin in Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis [PDF]

BMJ, 1946
IN the autumn of 1944 a small committee was formed in Belfast to investigate the clinical applications of penicillin, and for various research projects special supplies of penicillin were received from the Medical Research Council of Great Britain.
B. T. Smyth, R. J. L. Wilson
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Complicated Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis in a Patient with Ventricular Septal Defect

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2014
Infective endocarditis (IE) is an uncommon but life-threatening infection. Despite advances in management, it still causes high morbidity and mortality. We report the case of an 8-year-old girl who presented with a prolonged fever of 2.5 months duration ...
Khalfan S. Al-Senaidi, Anas-Alwogud A. Abdelmogheth, Abdullah A. Balkhair   +2 more
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Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis with Leptotrichia goodfellowii in a Patient with a Valvular Allograft: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2016
Leptotrichia species are normal constituents of the oral cavity and the genitourinary tract microbiota that are known to provoke disease in immunocompromised patients and rarely in immunocompetent individuals.
Wilfredo R. Matias, Daniel L. Bourque, Tomoko Niwano, Andrew B. Onderdonk, Joel T. Katz   +4 more
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Clinicopathological differences between Bartonella and other bacterial endocarditis-related glomerulonephritis – our experience and a pooled analysis

Frontiers in Nephrology
BackgroundAlthough Staphylococcus aureus is the leading cause of acute infective endocarditis (IE) in adults, Bartonella spp. has concomitantly emerged as the leading cause of “blood culture-negative IE” (BCNE).
Mineaki Kitamura, Mineaki Kitamura, Alana Dasgupta, Jonathan Henricks, Samir V. Parikh, Tibor Nadasdy, Edward Clark, Jose A. Bazan, Anjali A. Satoskar   +8 more
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Culture-negative subacute bacterial endocarditis masquerades as granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s granulomatosis) involving both the kidney and lung

BMC Nephrology, 2012
Background Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) occasionally exhibits positive cytoplasmic anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (c-ANCA) of the anti-proteinase-3 (PR-3) type.
Peng Hui, Chen Wen-fang, Wu Chao, Chen Yan-ru, Peng Bo, Paudel Sujay Dutta, Lou Tan-qi   +6 more
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SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS [PDF]

BMJ, 1918
H. Starling
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Positive real-time PCR in pneumococcal meningitis 12 hours after initiation of antibiotic therapy – case report [PDF]

BMC Neurology
Background Purulent meningitis poses a significant clinical challenge with high mortality. We present the case of a 54-year-old female transferred to our emergency department with suspected bacterial meningitis, later diagnosed as an Austrian syndrome ...
Cem Thunstedt, Carla Palleis, Johannes Wischmann, Suzette Heck, Konstantinos Dimitriadis, Matthias Klein   +5 more
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