Spleen enlargement is a common finding in acute Puumala hantavirus infection and it does not associate with thrombocytopenia

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 723-726

  Koskela, Sirpa M ^a   Laine, Outi K ^a,b   Paakkala, Antti S ^a   Mäkelä, Satu M ^a,b   Mustonen, Jukka T ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

MRI; Platelet; Puumala hantavirus; Spleen; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUUMALA HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; SPLEEN LENGTH; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PUUMALA VIRUS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PUUMALA VIRUS; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907147033     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2014.930967     Document Type: Article

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