Clinical characteristics of patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome / 中华实验和临床病毒学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>Patients with typical clinical manifestations of Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) are becoming fewer. We conducted analysis on clinical features of HFRS in order to reduce the mistakes in diagnosis.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>64 patients were diagnosed as HFRS during May, 2000 to June, 2006 in our hospital. All the patients' serological tests (HFRS-NP-specific IgM, IgG antibody) by ELISA method were positive. We collected their clinical manifestations and test results. SPSS 12.0 was used in our statistical analysis.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Among the 64 patients, 71.6% of all the cases occurred from Feb. to June. Most of patients were admitted to the hospital with untypical manifestation. Only 30.6% patients appeared headache, lumbago, and pain of orbital cavity. 32.8% patients had obviously signs of injection and hemorrhage. However, there were 90.6% patients with headache and 84.4% patients with nausea or vomit. Hypotensive or oliguric phases were absent in 56.3% patients. There were only 31.3% patients with all five stages. Thrombocytopenia (79.7%) and heavy proteinuria (71.9%) were common. But 54.7% of patients shown normal or even decreased white blood cell count. Only 2/3 of patients had elevated serum creatinine (Cr). Liver involved was common showing as elevated aminotransferase. ALT level was not always parallel to Cr level. There was an opposite trend between them.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>We must recognized the untypical manifestations of HFRS. Further study focus on pathogenesis was useful for diagnosis and therapy.</p>