Symptoms of Weil's syndrome
General information about symptoms of Weil's syndrome: The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible symptoms of Weil's syndrome. This symptom information has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of symptoms of Weil's syndrome. Furthermore, symptoms of Weil's syndrome may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of symptoms and whether they are indeed symptoms of Weil's syndrome.
List of symptoms of Weil's syndrome: The list of symptoms mentioned in various sources for Weil's syndrome includes:
- Fever
- No symptoms - in some cases
- High fever
- Severe headache
- Chills
- Muscle aches
- Vomiting
- Flu-like symptoms
- Jaundice
- Red eyes
- Abdominal pain
- Diarrhea
- Rash
- Hemorrhage
- Hepatomegaly
- Pulmonary hemorrhage
- Respiratory failure
- ARDS
- Jaundice
- Drowsiness
- Confusion
Symptoms of Weil's syndrome: If a second phase occurs, it is more severe; the person may have kidney or liver failure or meningitis. This phase is also called Weil's disease.1
The serious icteric form (Weil’s disease) is not common, but hemorrhage, hepatomegaly, pulmonary hemorrhage, ARDS, and jaundice are among the severe features. Case fatality rate is 1 to 5%. 2
More symptoms of Weil's syndrome: In addition to the above information, to get a full picture of the possible symptoms of this condition and its related conditions, it may be necessary to examine symptoms that may be caused by complications of Weil's syndrome, underlying causes of Weil's syndrome, associated conditions for Weil's syndrome, risk factors for Weil's syndrome, or other related conditions.
Medical articles on symptoms: These general reference articles may be of interest:
Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Leptospirosis (General): DBMD
2. excerpt from Leptospirosis: DBMD
Last revision: April 2, 2003
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