Successful treatment of critically ill chronic kidney disease patient with multi-organ dysfunction associated with H1N1 infection

V B Kute; P R Shah; K R Goplani; A V Vanikar; H L Trivedi

doi:10.4103/0971-4065.78082

Successful treatment of critically ill chronic kidney disease patient with multi-organ dysfunction associated with H1N1 infection

Indian J Nephrol. 2011 Jan;21(1):59-61. doi: 10.4103/0971-4065.78082.

Authors

V B Kute¹, P R Shah, K R Goplani, A V Vanikar, H L Trivedi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Transfusion Services and Immunohematology, (ITS)- (IKDRC), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients are at higher risk of H1N1 influenza A infection and associated complications. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of a febrile CKD patient with multi-organ dysfunction and associated H1N1 virus infection successfully treated with oseltamivir, hemodialysis, and mechanical ventilation. Oseltamivir is safe, effective, and well tolerated in our CKD patient.

Keywords: CKD; H1N1; multi-organ dysfunction; oseltamivir.

Publication types

Case Reports