Crescentic Glomerulonephritis Due to Enterococcal Endocarditis

Dragan Klarić; Marta Žutelija; Petar Šenjug; Marta Klarić; Danica Galešić Ljubanović

doi:10.3390/jpm13081212

Crescentic Glomerulonephritis Due to Enterococcal Endocarditis

J Pers Med. 2023 Jul 30;13(8):1212. doi: 10.3390/jpm13081212.

Authors

Dragan Klarić¹, Marta Žutelija¹, Petar Šenjug^{2

3}, Marta Klarić⁴, Danica Galešić Ljubanović^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Zadar General Hospital, Bože Peričića 5, 23000 Zadar, Croatia.
² Unit of Nephropathology and Electron Microscopy, Department of Pathology and Cytology, Dubrava University Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Zegreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
³ Institute of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Šalata 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
⁴ School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Ulica Braće Branchetta 20/1, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.

Abstract

Glomerulonephritis following an enterococcal endocarditis is an extremely rare and life-threatening condition. We present the case of a 71-year-old patient with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis following enterococcal endocarditis after surgical replacement of the aortic valve. The combination of antibiotic therapy, corticosteroid therapy and haemodialysis led to an improvement in renal function; however, the severity of cardiac deterioration resulted in a fatal outcome.

Keywords: enterococcal endocarditis; rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis; therapy.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.