Severe Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae infection with hepato-renal-pulmonary involvement treated with corticosteroids.
Clin Case Rep
; 2(5): 191-6, 2014 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-25614810
ABSTRACT
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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Clin Case Rep
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2014
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