Acute hantavirus infection presenting as hypersensitivity vasculitis with arthropathy

J Infect. 1993 Jan;26(1):75-7. doi: 10.1016/0163-4453(93)96936-k.

Abstract

Acute hantavirus infection was diagnosed in a young man presenting with a hypersensitivity vasculitis and arthropathy. He has recovered with minimal evidence of residual renal damage.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / drug therapy
  • Abdominal Pain / etiology
  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / complications*
  • Humans
  • Joint Diseases / etiology*
  • Male
  • Orthohantavirus / isolation & purification
  • Prednisolone / therapeutic use
  • Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous / etiology*

Substances

  • Prednisolone