Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome as a Cause of Acute Diarrhea.

ABSTRACT: Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a febrile disorder caused in Korea by the Hantaan and Seoul viruses. Its characteristic clinical manifestations include fever, hemorrhage, and renal failure, but a primary presentation with acute infectious diarrhea is rare. Owing to decreased urine output and renal function, a 54-year-old patient was transferred to our hospital from a local clinic, where he had been receiving treatment for diarrhea occurring more than 10 times a day. The patient was treated in the Gastroenterology Department at our hospital for acute renal failure secondary to inflammatory diarrhea based on the findings of stool leukocytes. An immunofluorescent antibody assay showed a 4-fold increase in the acute-phase antibody titer to Hantavirus during recovery. A nested r

SUBMITTER: Kim HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6493941 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature