SYSTEMIC LEPTOSPIROSIS AND MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE - REPORT OF ONE CASE

Leptospirosis is a world-spread zoonosis that is incidentally acquired by humans. It causes a diphasic febrile illness in which the Weil syn drome is its severest form, with renal, hepatic, clotting and central nervous system involvement. We report a 73 years old male, that was ad mitted to an intensive care unit with multiple organ failure due to le ptospirosis. The clinical picture initially resembled a sepsis due to biliary tract obstruction and was operated, not finding a biliary trac t obstruction. Considering the history of a fall to sewed waters, lept ospirosis was suspected and treatment with penicillin was started, obt aining a full recovery of the patient.