Commentary
Kidney International (2006) 69, 1930–1931. doi:10.1038/sj.ki.5000320
Is there an increased long-term risk of hypertension and renal impairment after Puumala virus-induced nephropathy?
B Rippe1
1Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
Correspondence: B Rippe, Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of Lund, S-211 85 Lund, Sweden. E-mail: Bengt.Rippe@med.lu.se
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Abstract
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?
