Bilateral massive pneumonia as an unusual manifestation of Puumala hantavirus infection

Renal involvement due to European Puumala virus (PUUV) is frequent but pulmonary involvement is quite rare. We present here, a 24-year-old male with atypical clinical presentation of acute PUUV infection with gross pulmonary and minimal renal involvement. Severe pulmonary manifestations of PUUV infe...

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Autores principales: Gözdaş, HT, Menemenlioğlu, D, Coşgun, Y, Çelebi, G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30136660
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_283_17
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author Gözdaş, HT
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description Renal involvement due to European Puumala virus (PUUV) is frequent but pulmonary involvement is quite rare. We present here, a 24-year-old male with atypical clinical presentation of acute PUUV infection with gross pulmonary and minimal renal involvement. Severe pulmonary manifestations of PUUV infection, in this case, highlights that hantavirus infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of atypical pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-61986942018-11-08 Bilateral massive pneumonia as an unusual manifestation of Puumala hantavirus infection Gözdaş, HT Menemenlioğlu, D Coşgun, Y Çelebi, G J Postgrad Med Case Report Renal involvement due to European Puumala virus (PUUV) is frequent but pulmonary involvement is quite rare. We present here, a 24-year-old male with atypical clinical presentation of acute PUUV infection with gross pulmonary and minimal renal involvement. Severe pulmonary manifestations of PUUV infection, in this case, highlights that hantavirus infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of atypical pneumonia. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6198694/ /pubmed/30136660 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_283_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Postgraduate Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198694/
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