Clinical and laboratory findings related to a favorable evolution of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome Características clínicas e laboratoriais associadas com boa evolução clínica na síndrome cardiopulmonar por hantavírus

The medical records of 27 patients with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome were analyzed according to the need for invasive mechanical ventilation in relation to the following data up on hospital admission: age, gender, fever, cough, dyspnea, systolic arterial blood pressure, heart rate, levels of hemogl...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo de Carvalho Santana, Gelse Mazzoni Campos, Luís Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, José Fernando de Castro Figueiredo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2006-06-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822006000300001