Leptospirosis in a child with acute respiratory distress syndrome

Leptospirosis is an infectious vasculitis, which can occur with different clinical features. While it is generally a subclinical and self-limited infection; kidney and liver dysfunction, pulmonary hemorrhage, thrombocytopenia, and cardiovascular collapse may occurr. A six-year-old boy presented wit...

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Main Authors: Osman Yeşilbaş, Esra Şevketoğlu, Hasan Serdar Kıhtır, Nevin Hatipoğlu, Hamdi Murat Yıldırım, Mehmet Bedir Akyol, Nuray Aktay-Ayaz, İbrahim Gökçe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health 2017-12-01
Series:The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
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Online Access:https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/1053