Acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis with native aorta valve endocarditis and myopericarditis due to brucellosis

Ren Fail. 2011;33(3):367-70. doi: 10.3109/0886022X.2011.559676.

Abstract

Human brucellosis is a systemic disease that involves multiple organs and tissues concomitantly. In this case, we describe a patient with pancarditis and nephrotic syndrome requiring hemodialyses, which is an unusually fatal condition resulting from brucellosis. He was successfully treated with early aortic valve replacement and intensive medical therapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brucellosis / complications*
  • Glomerulonephritis / etiology*
  • Heart Diseases / complications
  • Heart Diseases / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Young Adult