Is there an increased long-term risk of hypertension and renal impairment after Puumala virus-induced nephropathy?
Nephropathia epidemica (NE) is a mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, assumed to have a favorable prognosis. NE patients who manifested a higher glomerular filtration rate and mean systolic blood pressure, and more proteinuria, versus controls at 5 years of follow-up demonstrated no major abnormalities after 10 years. Antihypertensive treatment was, however, more common. Could NE predispose some patients to develop hypertension after all?
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Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of Lund, Lund, Sweden. Bengt.Rippe@med.lu.se
D006480:Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D029262:Puumala virus; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors