Successful treatment of severe hantavirus nephritis with corticosteroids: A case report and literature review

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 402-406

  Martinuč Bergoč, Maja ^a   Lindič, Jelka ^b   Kovač, Damjan ^b   Ferluga, Dušan ^c   Pajek, Jernej ^b  

^a Nova Gorica Polytechnics   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Corticosteroids; Dobrava hantavirus; Eplerenone; Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; DESMOPRESSIN; EPLERENONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NIFEDIPINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLUID INTAKE; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; OLIGURIA; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SPLENOMEGALY; STEROID THERAPY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINALYSIS; WATER DEPRIVATION;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROIDS; DOBRAVA HANTAVIRUS; EPLERENONE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIRONOLACTONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881533557     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1744-9987.12086     Document Type: Article

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