Acalculous cholecystitis associated with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

Abstract

Hantaviruses are responsible for various types of hemorrhagic fevers depending on the involved subtype. In Europe, Puumala virus is responsible for an epidemic nephropathy. This infection can be complicated by severe abdominal pain. A rarely reported cause of this presenting symptom is acalculous cholecystitis, which must be integrated in the clinicobiological spectrum and should not lead to a surgical sanction. Its presence seems to be correlated with the severity of the disease, whose main pathophysiological phenomenon is plasma leakage induced by a microvascular endothelial dysfunction. We report the case of a young male patient who presented with severe hantavirus infection complicated by acalculous cholecystitis.

• Epidemic nephropathy
• Hemorrhagic fever
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Puumala
• Acalculous cholecystitis
• Plasma leakage
• Endothelial dysfunction