[Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever].
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was for the first time recognized in Yugoslavia in 1971. In this paper were presented clinical and laboratory findings of a patient infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Kosovo in 1999. The disease was manifested with fever, headache, vomiting, myalgia, abdominal pain, pharyngitis, conjuctival injection, diarrhoea, hypotension, gingival bleeding, skin hemorrhages, hematuria, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, jaundice, thrombocytopenia, prolonged prothrombin and partial thromboplastin time, high serum fibrinogen degradation product, leukocytosis, mild anemia, elevated levels of bilirubin and serum aminotransferases. Diagnosis was set clinically, epidemiologically and supported by serological tests. Supportive management of hypotension, multi-organ failure, coagulation disturbances the patient was of the utmost in the treatment together with the isolation and prophylactic measures.
Djokic
M
M
Vojic
I
I
Mikic
D
D
Begovic
V
V
Bozovic
B
B
Djurcic
P
P
Dimitrijevic-Rajic
R
R
Drmanic
S
S
D000328:Adult; D006479:Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
Krimska-kongo hemoragijska grozinica.