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Chronic renal failure after Puumala virus infection
R Novo1, M F Gagnadoux, Y Le Guenno
1Service de Néphrologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, F-75743 Paris Cedex 15, France.
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
Chronic renal failure has never been described after Puumala hantavirus infection, which usually causes acute renal failure with spontaneous full recovery. We report a 15-year-old boy who presented with Puumala hantavirus infection and initial severe acute renal failure. His renal function gradually improved, but more than 2 years after the acute episode it was still moderately impaired, with a creatinine clearance of about 60 ml/min per 1.73 m(2)