Dengue Myocarditis Leading to Acute Cardiac Failure: Rare Manifestation of Expanded Dengue Syndrome

Acute shock dengue myocarditis.

The recent report on acute shock dengue myocarditis is of great terest. Guadalajara-Boo et al report this finding in a case of ngue. In fact, fatal dengue myocarditis due to a dengue virusduced cardiac lesion was reported a few years ago. An interesting estion concerns the increased severity of the disease. According to e previous report from a highly endemic area, Thailand, dengue yocarditis i...

A Rare Manifestation of Congenital Dengue Infection

Congenital dengue is caused by trans-placental transfer of virus from the infected mother to the fetus. We are reporting a case of stillbirth in a mother suffering from severe dengue infection. The stillborn was found to have myocarditis and pulmonary haemorrhage on autopsy. The report illustrates myocardial tropism of the dengue virus and its propensity to cause catastrophic complications duri...

Expanded Dengue.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has coined the term expanded dengue to describe cases which do not fall into either dengue shock syndrome or dengue hemorrhagic fever. This has incorporated several atypical findings of dengue. Dengue virus has not been enlisted as a common etiological agent in several conditions like encephalitis, Guillain Barre syndrome. Moreover it is a great mimic of co-e...

Acute fulminant hepatic failure due to colchicine – a rare manifestation of Gloriosa superba poisoning.

Histologic and angiographic imaging of acute shock dengue myocarditis.

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