Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Induction due to Infection: A Patient with Infective Endocarditis and Chronic Hepatitis C

Table 2

Diagnostic aids for differentiating between infectious endocarditis and small-vessel .

(i) Presentation with constitutional symptoms	(i) Splenomegaly
(ii) Pyrexia	(ii) Thrombocytopenia
(iii) Active urinary sediment	(iii) Hypocomplementemia
(iv) Skin involvement	(iv) Immune complexes
(v) Decreased GFR	(v) Other positive autoantibodies
(vi) Increased inflammatory marker levels	(vi) Low titer ANCA/ELISA negative
	(vii) Other organ involvement

ANCA: antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; GFR: glomerular filtration rate.
seen in both conditions.
seen predominantly in infectious endocarditis.
table was taken from Forbes et al. (2012) with permission [8].