Pulmonary haemorrhage in Weil’s disease

Leptospirosisis a zoonosis caused by spirochaetes from the species Leptospira. The more severe form of leptospirosis, known as Weil’s disease, is characterised by the triad of jaundice, renal impairment and haemorrhages. Pulmonary involvement occurs in 20%–70% of the patients, with severity ranging...

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Autores principales: Boertjes, Emma, Hillebrand, Stefanie, Bins, Janneke Elisabeth, Oswald, Laurien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7021118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31996379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-227570
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author Boertjes, Emma
Hillebrand, Stefanie
Bins, Janneke Elisabeth
Oswald, Laurien
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description Leptospirosisis a zoonosis caused by spirochaetes from the species Leptospira. The more severe form of leptospirosis, known as Weil’s disease, is characterised by the triad of jaundice, renal impairment and haemorrhages. Pulmonary involvement occurs in 20%–70% of the patients, with severity ranging from non-productive cough to respiratory failure mainly due to pulmonary haemorrhage. Recognition of Weil’s disease in patients presenting with pulmonary symptoms can be difficult. This case illustrates a classic case of pulmonary haemorrhagic involvement in Weil’s disease.
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spelling pubmed-70211182020-02-28 Pulmonary haemorrhage in Weil’s disease Boertjes, Emma Hillebrand, Stefanie Bins, Janneke Elisabeth Oswald, Laurien BMJ Case Rep Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms Leptospirosisis a zoonosis caused by spirochaetes from the species Leptospira. The more severe form of leptospirosis, known as Weil’s disease, is characterised by the triad of jaundice, renal impairment and haemorrhages. Pulmonary involvement occurs in 20%–70% of the patients, with severity ranging from non-productive cough to respiratory failure mainly due to pulmonary haemorrhage. Recognition of Weil’s disease in patients presenting with pulmonary symptoms can be difficult. This case illustrates a classic case of pulmonary haemorrhagic involvement in Weil’s disease. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7021118/ /pubmed/31996379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-227570 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title_short Pulmonary haemorrhage in Weil’s disease
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topic Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7021118/
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