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Diseased Kidney of 22 year old patient.
The appearance of the kidney was the most important post-mortem indication of hemorrhagic fever. In a patient with hemorrhagic fever, it appeared pale, swollen and heavy, frequently almost double the weight of a normal kidney. Hemorrhage limited the kidney's ability to convert blood waste into urine. Compare the darkened patches in the diseased kidney to the 22-year-old soldier on the right to the normal kidney on the left. |