Open AccessAcute kidney injury and electrolyte abnormalities in patients with scrub typhus admitted to a tertiary care hospital in southern India
Author(s) -
Raghav Grover,
Vadivelan Mehalingam
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1407_20
Subject(s) - scrub typhus , medicine , acute kidney injury , incidence (geometry) , creatinine , orientia tsutsugamushi , intensive care medicine , pathology , physics , optics
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness that is seen in many parts of India. Acute kidney injury (AKI) can occur in patients with scrub typhus who are not diagnosed and treated in the early stage of the disease. Such patients can have associated electrolyte abnormalities also.