Febrile disease in a Bulgarian emigrant with acute renal failure, thrombocytopenia, bilateral subconjunctival haemorrhage and hypoxemia

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-5

  Sargianou, Maria ^a   Watson, Dionysios C ^a   Kampiotis, Dionysios ^a   Papa, Anna ^b   Economopoulou, Asimoula ^c   Gogos, Charalampos ^a   Panos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERIAL GAS; BILATERAL SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONSTIPATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; HANTAVIRUS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ANOXIA; CONJUNCTIVA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEVER; HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861856526     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2012.01.019     Document Type: Note

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