Puumala Virus Infections Associated with Cardiovascular Causes of Death

Abstract

We studied the causes of death of patients in Sweden with diagnoses of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) during 1997–2009. Cardiovascular disorders were a common cause of death during acute-phase HFRS and were the cause of death for >50% of those who died during the first year after HFRS.

Keywords

• Puumala virus
• hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
• HFRS
• hantavirus
• cause of death
• cardiovascular diseases