Clinical and imaging manifestations of hemorrhagic pulmonary leptospirosis: A state-of-the-art review

Lung

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Marchiori, Edson ^a   Lourenço, Sílvia ^a   Setúbal, Sérgio ^a   Zanetti, Gláucia ^b   Gasparetto, Taisa Davaus ^a   Hochhegger, Bruno ^b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary hemorrhage; Pulmonary infection; Pulmonary leptospirosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PENICILLIN G; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGGLUTINATION TEST; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIL DISEASE;

EID: 79952281690     PISSN: 03412040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00408-010-9273-0     Document Type: Review

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