title: A rare case of Weil's disease with alveolar haemorrhage.
abstract: Leptospirosis, a disease of protean manifestations occurs sporadically throughout the year with a peak seasonal incidence during the rainy season mimicking other febrile viral illness. In the rare case, the disease leads to renal and hepatic involvement with hemorrhage which may be associated with multisystem organ dysfunction in form of pulmonary, cardiac and central nervous system, when it is known as Weil's disease. Rarely haemorrhagic manifestations are assosciated. Early diagnosis is important as sometimes the disease may be life threatening. Proper antibiotics results in dramatic improvement. We hereby presented a case that had clinical features of Weil's disease with cough, dyspnoea and haemoptysis. Leptospirosis was detected on ELISA testing. Patient was cured rapidly with antibiotics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiodiagnosis, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Abhiram
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chakrabarti
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Manab
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nandy
authors.affiliation: Department of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Dipankar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pal
authors.affiliation: Department of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Sudesna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mallik
keywords: Alveolar haemorrhage; Leptospirosis; Weil's disease