Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: The traditional concept of immediate antibiotic treatment in suspected leptospirosis seems to be especially important for patients up to day 4 of clinical illness. As immune mechanisms probably play a crucial role in advanced leptospirosis with presumed pulmonary hemorrhages, p...

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Autores principales: Schulze, Marco H, Raschel, Heribert, Langen, Heinz-Jakob, Stich, August, Tappe, Dennis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25614810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.91
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author Schulze, Marco H
Raschel, Heribert
Langen, Heinz-Jakob
Stich, August
Tappe, Dennis
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description KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: The traditional concept of immediate antibiotic treatment in suspected leptospirosis seems to be especially important for patients up to day 4 of clinical illness. As immune mechanisms probably play a crucial role in advanced leptospirosis with presumed pulmonary hemorrhages, patients might benefit from corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents beside antibiotics.
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spelling pubmed-43026242015-01-22 Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids Schulze, Marco H Raschel, Heribert Langen, Heinz-Jakob Stich, August Tappe, Dennis Clin Case Rep Case Reports KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: The traditional concept of immediate antibiotic treatment in suspected leptospirosis seems to be especially important for patients up to day 4 of clinical illness. As immune mechanisms probably play a crucial role in advanced leptospirosis with presumed pulmonary hemorrhages, patients might benefit from corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents beside antibiotics. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-10 2014-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4302624/ /pubmed/25614810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.91 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Schulze, Marco H
Raschel, Heribert
Langen, Heinz-Jakob
Stich, August
Tappe, Dennis
Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids
title Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids
title_full Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids
title_fullStr Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids
title_full_unstemmed Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids
title_short Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids
title_sort severe leptospira interrogans serovar icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25614810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.91
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