Some natural focus diseases-induced kidney injury / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Officers and soldiers of the army are one of the populations with high incidence of natural focus diseases since they should enter or contact with the natural foci due to military actions and training, and thereby gets infection even leads to the epidemic of natural focus diseases. The natural focus diseases include epidemic hemorrhagic fever, schistosomiasis, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and malaria, etc., and possess the complex and changeable characteristics in epidemic regularity and clinical manifestation. Kidney is the easily vulnerable organ by natural focus diseases. Early definite diagnosis and active and effective treatment is the key to reduce the mortality and progress of natural epidemic-related renal injury to end-stage kidney disease. The present paper mainly introduces the clinical, pathological manifestations and prevention and treatment of renal injury caused by natural focus diseases (epidemic hemorrhagic fever, schistosomiasis, leptospirosis, malaria, Lyme disease), in order to improve the understanding of diagnosis and treatment of natural focus diseases-related kidney injury.