Bartonella henselae infection-associated vasculitis and crescentic glomerulonephritis leading to renal allograft loss

Transplant Infectious Disease : an Official Journal of the Transplantation Society
A R ChaudhryC B Drachenberg

Abstract

Bartonella henselae (BH) is the main cause of cat scratch disease (CSD), which more typically presents as a self-limited localized suppurative lymphadenopathy in immunocompetent individuals. In contrast, immunocompromised patients commonly have systemic disease with life-threatening complications. In addition to the angioproliferative lesions, such as bacillary angiomatosis, an increasing number of immune post-infectious complications are being recognized with BH infections, including glomerulonephritis, vasculitis, hemophagocytic syndrome, and neurological problems. We report the case of a renal transplant recipient who developed CSD in the second year post transplantation. In addition to prolonged fever and generalized lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly requiring differentiation from a post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, the course was complicated by the development of dermal leukocytoclastic vasculitis and pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis, which led to failure of the renal graft. Glomerulonephritis as a complication of CSD has never been described in a kidney allograft, to our knowledge. Awareness of the diverse clinical symptoms associated with BH, including granulomatous/suppurative lesion...Continue Reading

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