This prospective study analyzes 173 patients, hospitalized between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2008, for serologically confirmed leptospirosis.
It describes the renal, clinical and laboratory manifestations in 88 (50.8%) of these cases. Acute kidney failure was frequent in this group (68 cases = 77.3%). Kidney damage was one of the multiple organs affected, with infection and hepatic and hemorrhagic signs predominant.