Hospital-onset IgA vasculitis triggered by infectious endocarditis
Kento Furuya,
Naoya Itoh
Affiliations
Kento Furuya
Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shizuoka General Hospital, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Japan
Naoya Itoh
Division of Infectious Diseases, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan; Correspondence to: Division of Infectious Diseases, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Kanokoden 1-1, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan.
This is a case of IgA vasculitis developed in the hospital during treatment of infective endocarditis. When purpura appears in a patient under IE treatment, we should consider IgA vasculitis as a differential diagnosis and check renal function.
