PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | scrub typhus |
| Symptom | C0022660|acute renal failure |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 24498445 | A recent systematic review could only find a few case reports specifically describing acute renal failure due to scrub typhus . |
| PubMedID- 24235852 | Renal vasculitis, which causesleakage of albumin into the urine, was reported in scrub typhus patients with renal complications.acute renal failure may cause shock; a study in thailand reported septic shock in 88.9% of patientswith positive urine albumin.17 in india, thecorresponding figure was 28.6% in adults29 and3%–17% in children.15,23 in the present study, higher levels of urine albuminsignificantly increased scrub typhus severity, even after excluding patients with diabetes,hypertension, and liver cirrhosis, all conditions in which positive urine albumin may already bepresent (data not shown). |
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