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Table 4 Reported deaths and reported causes of death

From: Estimating the burden of leptospirosis in Sri Lanka; a systematic review

Published year

Study design

Deaths

Reported causes of death

Citation

1959

Case series

1

Haemorrhagic manifestation of liver and kidney

[12]

1964

Case series

2

Multi organ failure and coma (lungs, meningitis, neurological manifestations)

[32]

1967

Cross sectional

2

Leptospiraemic meningitis, bleeding manifestations

[57]

1974

Cross sectional

8

Sepsis with liver, renal manifestations

[21]

1976

Case report

9

Acute renal failure

[35]

1977

Case series

7

Cardiac and pulmonary manifestation (hypotension with or without tachycardia, pulmonary oedema, haemorrhages and exudations)

[61]

2008

Cross Sectional

15

Acute lung injury, myocarditis

[36]

2011

Cross Sectional

3

Fulminant myocarditis

[9, 38]a

2011

Cross Sectional

33

Respiratory failure and renal failure

[20]

2011

Case series and review

13

Multi organ failure

[39]

2012

Case series

21

Moderate to severe pulmonary haemorrhage in association with hepato-renal, myocardial and cerebral lesions

[41]

2013

Case control

1

Jaundice, oliguria with acute organ dysfunction

[42]

2014

Abstract

1

Meningoencephalitis

[45]

2015

Case report

1

Multi organ dysfunction and refractory shock, cardiac involvement (global hypokinesia, acute heart failure)

[60]

2015

Case report

3

Post-partum haemorrhage, HELLP syndrome

[23]

2015

Case report

1

Multi organ dysfunction syndrome

[47]

2015

Case report

1

Marked pleural effusion, cardiac, liver manifestations, renal manifestations

[22]

2015

Cross sectional

20

Hypotension, cardiac failure, AKI, ARDS,

[19]

2016

Cross sectional

7

Multi organ failure

[39, 58]b

2016

Case series

1

Cardiovascular, respiratory, abdominal complication, refractory hypotension, acute pancreatitis, multi organ failure

[52]

  1. aReferences [9 and 28] used the same data set
  2. bReferences [48 and 65] used the same data set