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Acute kidney injury in patient with ehrlichiosis

Publication at Third Faculty of Medicine |
2013

Abstract

Ehrlichiosis is an infectious disease transmitted by ticks. The name of infectious agent is Anaplasma (originally called Ehrlichia) phagocytophilum.

It is the intracellular patogen with an affinity for granulocytes causing immune disorders. This case report documents the development of acute kidney injury in patient with chronic ehrlichiosis, that was reason of severe parainfectious injury of renal tubulointerstitium during sepsis due to infectious endocarditis and bronchopneumonia.

Management of sepsis by antibiotic therapy and erradication of ehrlichiosis (doxycycline) was crucial marker proteins