<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The tropical areas are a home to a number of diseases because of the hot &amp; humid climate, and lack of health care facilities. Tropical Nephropathies are a major health problem and a matter of great concern. The main causes of kidney injury in tropics are due to bacterial, viral or parasitic infections like malaria, dengue, leptospirosis, scrub typhus, acute gastroenteritis, tuberculosis, leprosy and toxic envenomations like snake bite. Renal injury associated with tropical infections has a wide spectrum of presentations ranging from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease. Renal involvement in infectious diseases by one or other mechanism is a definite cause of increased morbidity and mortality. Proper understanding of these diseases, early diagnosis, patient education and improved health care facilities will lead to a better outcome and improved survival. This article reviews the various tropical infections causing kidney injury including pathophysiology and line of management.</p></abstract>

The tropical areas are a home to a number of diseases because of the hot & humid climate, and lack of health care facilities. Tropical Nephropathies are a major health problem and a matter of great concern. The main causes of kidney injury in tropics are due to bacterial, viral or parasitic infections like malaria, dengue, leptospirosis, scrub typhus, acute gastroenteritis, tuberculosis, leprosy and toxic envenomations like snake bite. Renal injury associated with tropical infections has a wide spectrum of presentations ranging from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease. Renal involvement in infectious diseases by one or other mechanism is a definite cause of increased morbidity and mortality. Proper understanding of these diseases, early diagnosis, patient education and improved health care facilities will lead to a better outcome and improved survival. This article reviews the various tropical infections causing kidney injury including pathophysiology and line of management.

Tropical Diseases Nephropathy - An Underemphasized Comorbidity

Department of Medicine IV and Registrar, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, ROHTAK-124001(Haryana)

Department of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, ROHTAK-124001(Haryana)

ARS Medica Tomitana

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The tropical areas are a home to a number of diseases because of the hot & humid climate, and lack of health care facilities. Tropical Nephropathies are a...

Tropical Diseases Nephropathy - An Underemphasized Comorbidity

Published Online: Mar 30, 2017

Page range: 239 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/arsm-2016-0041

Keywords
kidney injury, infectious diseases, malaria, tropical infections

© 2016 Aggarwal H.K. et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Tropical Diseases Nephropathy - An Underemphasized Comorbidity

Published Online: Mar 30, 2017

Page range: 239 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/arsm-2016-0041

Keywordskidney injury, infectious diseases, malaria, tropical infections

© 2016 Aggarwal H.K. et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
kidney injury, infectious diseases, malaria, tropical infections