Symptoms of Hantavirus
Symptoms of Hantavirus
The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources
for Hantavirus includes the 17
symptoms listed below:
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- Epigastric Distress
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema distinguishes the syndrome. Common chief complaints include myalgia, fever, head-ache, nausea, vomiting, and cough. Respiratory distress typically follows the onset of a cough. Fever, hypoxia and, in some patients, serious hypotension typify its course.
Other signs and symptoms include a rising respiratory rate (28 breaths/minute or more) and an increased heart rate (120 beats/minute or more).
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Infant respiratory distress syndrome:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Although a neonate with IRDS may breathe normally at first, he usually develops rapid, shallow respirations within minutes or hours of birth, with intercostal, subcostal, or sternal retractions, nasal flaring, and audible expiratory grunting. This grunting is a natural compensatory mechanism designed to produce positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and prevent further alveolar collapse.
Severe disease is marked by apnea, bradycardia, and cyanosis (from hypoxemia, left-to-right shunting through the foramen ovale, or right-to-left intrapulmonary shunting through atelectatic regions of the lung). Other clinical features include pallor, frothy sputum, and low body temperature as a result of an immature nervous system and the absence of subcutaneous fat.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Acute respiratory distress syndrome:
Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Rapid, shallow breathing; dyspnea, crackles, rhonchi; hypoxemia; bilateral infiltrates on chest X-ray
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema distinguishes the syndrome. Common chief complaints include myalgia, fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, and cough. Respiratory distress typically follows the onset of a cough. Fever, hypoxia and, in some patients, serious hypotension typify the hospital course.
The first signs of illness appear within 1 to 5 weeks of exposure, especially fever and muscle aches. This is followed by coughing and shortness of breath. At this point, the disease progresses rapidly, necessitating ventilation within 24 hours.
Other signs and symptoms include a rising respiratory rate (less than 28 breaths/ minute) and an increased heart rate (greater than 120 beats/minute).
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Acuterespiratory distress syndrome:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
ARDS initially produces rapid, shallow breathing and dyspnea within hours to days of the initial injury (sometimes after the patient’s condition appears stable). Hypoxemia develops, causing an increased drive for ventilation. Because of the effort required to expand the stiff lung, intercostal and suprasternal retractions result. Fluid accumulation may produce crackles and rhonchi, and worsening hypoxemia causes restlessness, apprehension, mental sluggishness, motor dysfunction, and tachycardia (possibly with transient increased arterial blood pressure).
Severe ARDS causes overwhelming hypoxemia, which, if uncorrected, results in hypotension, decreasing urine output, respiratory and metabolic acidosis and, eventually, ventricular fibrillation or standstill.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Respiratory distress syndrome:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Although a neonate with respiratory distress syndrome may breathe normally at first, he usually develops rapid, shallow respirations within minutes or hours of birth, with intercostal, subcostal, or sternal retractions; nasal flaring; and audible expiratory grunting. This grunting is a natural compensatory mechanism designed to produce positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and prevent further alveolar collapse.
The neonate may also display hypotension, peripheral edema, and oliguria; if he has severe disease, apnea, bradycardia, and cyanosis (from hypoxemia, left-to-right shunting through the foramen ovale, or right-to-left shunting through atelectatic regions of the lung) may be present. Other signs and symptoms include pallor, frothy sputum, and low body temperature as a result of an immature nervous system and the absence of subcutaneous fat.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Hantavirus as a Cause of Symptoms or Medical Conditions
When considering symptoms of Hantavirus, it is also important to consider Hantavirus as a possible cause of other medical conditions.
The Disease Database lists the following medical conditions that Hantavirus may cause:
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The symptom information on this page
attempts to provide a list of some possible signs and symptoms of Hantavirus.
This signs and symptoms information for Hantavirus has been gathered from various sources,
may not be fully accurate,
and may not be the full list of Hantavirus signs or Hantavirus symptoms.
Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Hantavirus may vary on an individual basis for each patient.
Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they
are indeed Hantavirus symptoms.
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