Clinicopathological differences between Bartonella and other bacterial endocarditis-related glomerulonephritis – our experience and a pooled analysis
Mineaki Kitamura, Alana Dasgupta, Jonathan Henricks, Samir V. Parikh, Tibor Nadasdy, Edward Clark, Jose A. Bazan, Anjali A. Satoskar · 2024
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Mineaki Kitamura and seven co-authors compare in 2024 kidney disease caused by Bartonella heart valve infection with kidney disease from other bacterial valve infections. Bartonella has become the leading cause of valve infections where blood cultures come back empty, and its kidney complications carry some telltale quirks.
Drawing on their own cases and a pooled analysis of published ones, the team sets side by side the risk factors, symptoms, and kidney biopsy findings of each group. They highlight the clues that point to Bartonella and the management steps that follow. For doctors facing culture-negative endocarditis, those distinctions can speed the right treatment.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mineaki Kitamura, Alana Dasgupta, Jonathan Henricks, Samir V. Parikh, Tibor Nadasdy, Edward Clark, Jose A. Bazan, Anjali A. Satoskar |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |