Prognostic Factors Associated with Severe Leptospirosis

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 925-931

  Tantitanawat, Sompong ^a   Tanjatham, Sansanee ^b  

^a Phrae Rice Research Center   (Thailand)

^b Regional Medical Sciences Center   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Acute Renal Failure; Mortality; Respiratory Failure; Severe Leptospirosis

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; BILIRUBIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CREATININE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OLIGURIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEROLOGY; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THAILAND;

EID: 0345601862     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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