Life-threatening Dobrava hantavirus infection with unusually extended pulmonary involvement
- 1 July 2004
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle in Clinical Nephrology
- Vol. 62 (7) , 54-57
- https://doi.org/10.5414/cnp62054
Abstract
In Europe, hantavirus infections usually present as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and its mild form nephropathia epidemica, while clinical cases with severe pulmonary affections are extremely rare and appear to be confined to infections by New World hanta viruses in the Americas. We report on a female patient from Northern Germany, who suffered primarily from severe acute respiratory distress syndrome-like pulmonary failure due to Dobrava hantavirus infection that was complicated by acute renal insufficiency.Keywords
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