Post-infectious glomerulonephritis following infective endocarditis: Amenable to immunosuppression.

Glomerulonephritis develops in about 20% patients with infective endocarditis (IE), but is mostly asymptomatic. Heavy proteinuria or derangement of kidney functions is uncommon. We report here a child with IE and proliferative glomerulonephritis who manifested as significant proteinuria that recovered on treatment with immunosupressants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]