ISQUA17-1024USING CLINICAL PATHWAY TO MANAGE DENGUE FEVER

Dengue fever: a Wikipedia clinical review

Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, is a mosquito-borne infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. In a small proportion of cases, the disease develops into life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, which results in bleeding, thrombocytopenia, and leakage o...

Clinical profile and outcome of dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever in pediatric age group

This study was conducted in the CICU and PICU of SCB medical college, Cuttack, Odisha, India. Patients with serologically confirmed dengue from 1 yr age to 16 years were included in this study. The period of study was from June 2014 to May 2015. 100 patients were included in this study. Patients were enrolled after obtaining written consent from parents. Patients with enteric fever, Rickettsial...

Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever among adults: clinical outcomes related to viremia, serotypes, and antibody response.

BACKGROUND Clinical manifestations of dengue vary in different areas of endemicity and between specific age groups, whereas predictors of outcome have remained controversial. In Brazil, the disease burden predominantly affects adults, with an increasing trend toward progression to dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) noted. METHODS A cohort of adults with confirmed cases of dengue was recruited in ...

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