More than half of the patients with acute Puumala hantavirus infection have abnormal cardiac findings

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-62

  Makela, Satu ^a,b   Kokkonen, Liisa ^c   Ala Houhala, Ilpo ^b   Groundstroem, Kaj ^d   Harmoinen, Aimo ^e   Huhtala, Heini ^f   Hurme, Mikko ^a   Paakkala, Antti ^b   Porsti, Ilkka ^a,b   Virtanen, Vesa ^b   Vaheri, Antti ^g   Mustonen, Jukka ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c PÄIJÄT HÄME CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d KYMENLAAKSO CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e Eastern Finland Laboratory Centre   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; TROPONIN I; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUUMALA VIRUS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PUUMALA VIRUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049192964     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802502629     Document Type: Article

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