Parameters for assessing the severity of clinical presentation of hemorrhagic fever with kindey syndrome

Hemorrhagic fever with kidney syndrome is an acute infectious disease of the zoonotic character, which is characterized by the sudden beginning, high temperature, distinct hemorrhagic syndrome and symptoms and signs of the acute kidney insufficiency. Hemorrhagic fever with kidney syndrome can have mild, moderate and severe clinical picture and the mortality ranges from 5% -15% in our area. The purpose of this study was to try to present criteria on the basis of which it would be possible to forsee, on time, the severity of the clinical picture and to recognize the patient with the most severe disease form.