ASSESSMENT OF LIVER FUNCTION TESTS IN DENGUE FEVER

Assessment of Dengue fever severity through liver function tests.

OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of liver function tests (LFTs) for early recognition and prediction of severity of Dengue fever in hospitalized patients. STUDY DESIGN An analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Services Institute of Medical Science and Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore, from September - December 2010. METHODOLOGY Admitted cases of Dengue fever were divided into 3 grou...

The utility of liver function tests in dengue.

Dengue Fever Associated Liver Failure

Background: Dengue fever is common in Southeast Asia although liver failure is a rare complication with up to 50% mortality rate reported in children. Objective: To evaluate the characteristics and treatment outcome of dengue fever associated liver failure (DFALF) in a case series of 4 paediatric patients. DFALF was defined as INR>2, regardless of the presence or absence of encephalopathy or IN...

Assessment of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Myanmar.

This study assesses the burden of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and effectiveness of an intervention package in Myanmar. Disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost for fatal and non-fatal DHF cases and DALYs averted due to intervention for DHF from 1970-1997 were estimated. The data are based on reported cases and deaths from DHF extracted from annual reports of the Myanmar vector borne disea...

‏‎interpersonal function of language in subtitling

‏‎translation as a comunicative process is always said to be associated with various aspects of meaning loss or gain. subtitling as a mode of translating, due to special discoursal and textual conditions imposed upon it, is believed to be an obvious case of this loss or gain. presenting the spoken sound track of a film in writing and synchronizing the perception of this text by the viewers with...