Dengue hemorrhagic fever with severe ocular complication: case series

Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Continued geographic expansion of dengue viruses and their mosquito vectors has seen the magnitude and frequency of epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF) increase dramatically. More than 200,000,000 infections and over 2 million cases of DHF occur annually, and dengue is one of the most important emerging tropical diseases in the world. Its dramatically increased incidence and geogr...

Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Dengue fever, a very old disease, has reemerged in the past 20 years with an expanded geographic distribution of both the viruses and the mosquito vectors, increased epidemic activity, the development of hyperendemicity (the cocirculation of multiple serotypes), and the emergence of dengue hemorrhagic fever in new geographic regions. In 1998 this mosquito-borne disease is the most important tro...

Case report: Dengue hemorrhagic fever with encephalopathy in an adult.

Encephalopathy in dengue hemorrhagic fever is a very rare condition and usually occurrs in the febrile stage. We report a 29-year-old woman, who presented with acute fever, thrombocytopenia and positive IgM antibodies for dengue virus. On the fourth hospital day, the fever subsided and she developed a confusional stage. CT scan and MRI of the brain were within normal limits. Electroencephalogra...

Concomitant dengue hemorrhagic fever with Kawasaki disease.

This is an unique case report of concomitant dengue hemorrhagic fever and Kawasaki disease, not reported previously. The unusual clinical course of persistent fever, coronary artery involvement evidenced from 2-D echocardiogram, and hydrops of the gallbladder is discussed.