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Лихорадка долины Рифт

Última revisión: 15 Sep 2025
Última actualización: 05 Nov 2020

Resumen

Definición

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • наличие факторов риска
  • лихорадка ≥37.5 °C
  • кровотечение (десны, желудочно-кишечный тракта, метроррагия)
  • петехии
  • конъюнктивит
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Other diagnostic factors

  • недомогание
  • головная боль
  • артралгия
  • миалгия
  • боль в брюшной полости
  • тошнота/рвота
  • диарея
  • лимфаденопатия
  • неврологические симптомы например, дезориентация, атаксия, судороги)
  • боль в горле
  • кашель
  • прострация/кома
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Risk factors

  • профессиональный риск
  • контакт с соответствующими видами грызунов
  • взрослые мужчины
  • контакт с инфицированным человеком
  • проживание в эндемичном регионе
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • полимеразная цепная реакция с обратной транскрипцией (RT-PCR)
  • Иммуноферментный анализ (ИФА)
  • развернутый анализ крови
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Investigations to consider

  • исследование на малярию
  • бактериологическое исследование крови
  • уровень электролитов и функция почек
  • функция печени
  • коагулограмма
  • лактат дегидрогеназа (ЛДГ)
  • креатинфосфокиназа
  • Рентгенография органов грудной клетки
  • исследование газового состава артериальной крови
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

пациенты с наличием симптомов

Contributors

Authors

Nathalie MacDermott, MBBCh

Wellcome Clinical Research Training Fellow

Imperial College London

London

UK

Disclosures

NMD declares that she has no competing interests.

Thomas G. Ksiazek, DVM, PhD

Professor

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston

Galveston

TX

Disclosures

TGK has grants and contracts from NIH but is not involved in drug or vaccine research relating to South American haemorrhagic fevers. He has patents in regard to Ebola, Rift Valley fever, and hantaviruses. TGK is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Peer reviewers

Stalin Vilcarromero, MD

Research Physician

US Naval Medical Research Unit 6 (NAMRU-6)

Iquitos

Peru

Disclosures

SV declares that he has no competing interests.

Vanessa Raabe, MD, MSc

Adult and Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow

Emory University

Atlanta

GA

Disclosures

VR declares that she has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Patterson M, Grant A, Paessler S. Epidemiology and pathogenesis of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. Curr Opin Virol. 2014;5:82-90.Full text  Abstract

Gómez RM, Jaquenod de Giusti C, Sanchez Vallduvi MM, et al. Junín virus. A XXI century update. Microbes Infect. 2011;13:303-311. Abstract

Enria DA, Briggiler AM, Sánchez Z. Treatment of Argentine hemorrhagic fever. Antiviral Res. 2008;78:132-139. Abstract

Enria DA, Briggiler AM, Feuillade MR. An overview of the epidemiological, ecological and preventive hallmarks of Argentine haemorrhagic fever (Junin virus). Bulletin Institut Pasteur. 1998;96:103-114.

de Manzione N, Salas RA, Paredes H, et al. Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever: clinical and epidemiological studies of 165 cases. Clin Infect Dis. 1998;26:308-313.Full text  Abstract

Delgado S, Erickson BR, Agudo R, et al. Chapare virus, a newly discovered arenavirus isolated from a fatal hemorrhagic fever case in Bolivia. PLoS Pathog. 2008;4:e1000047.Full text  Abstract

Grant A, Seregin A, Huang C, et al. Junín virus pathogenesis and virus replication. Viruses. 2012;4:2317-2339.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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