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Volume 9, Number 11—November 2003
Research

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Southern Chile

Raúl Riquelme*Comments to Author , Mauricio Riquelme*, Antoni Torres†, Maria Luisa Rioseco*, José Antonio Vergara*, Luis Scholz‡, and Andrea Carriel*
Author affiliations: *Puerto Montt Regional Hospital, Puerto Montt, Chile; †Clinical Institute of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery Hospital Cliníc, Barcelona, Spain; ‡Osorno Regional Hospital, Osorno, Chile

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Table 3

Laboratory results at admission of 25 patients with hantavirus pulmonary syndromea

N Media + SD Minimum Maximum
Blood pH 24 7.39 + 0.09 7.09 7.51
PaO2 (mm Hg) 24 65.04 + 24.7 32 131
PaCO2 (mm Hg) 24 27.12 + 12.1 14 74
Hematocrit (%) 25 49.84 + 6.4 39 69
Platelets  (1,000//mL 24 53,850 + 40,996 9,900 174,000
Leukocytes (1,000//mL) 25 16,612 + 14,781 2,800 59,400
Band forms (%) 14 10.8 + 7.0 2 23
Lymphoblasts (%) 11 22.3 + 13.9 6 48
HSR (mm/h) 5 5.8 + 6.9 0 16
Sodium (mEq/L) 23 130.8 + 5.6 120 143
Potassium (mEq/L) 22 4.0 + 0.7 3 5.6
Creatinine (mg/dL) 22 1.38 + 0.5 0.7 3.1
Uremia (mg/dL) 6 76.7 + 54.2 16 140
Prothrombin (%) 13 80.2 + 26.9 13 100
Bilirubin (mg/dL) 13 0.69 + 0.35 0.31 1.44
Alkaline pH (U/L) 9 141.6 + 56.2 78 233
GOT (U/L) 12 211.8 + 162.2 24 478
GPT (U/L) 3 43.6 + 21.8 20 63

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