Hemorrhagic Dengue with Spontaneous Splenic Rupture: Case Report and Review

Dengue fever is an endemic mosquito-borne viral disease of the tropical and subtropical regions of the world that is transmitted by the bite of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. All four dengue serotypes cause a variety of clinical manifestations such as sudden onset of fever with chills, headache, retro-or...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 1997-11, Vol.25 (5), p.1262-1263
Main Authors: Redondo, María C., Ríos, Antonio, Cohen, Rafael, Ayala, Jesús, Martínez, José, Arellano, Gregorio, Paz, Virgilio, Saltiel, Christiane, Gómez, Rafael, Gentili, David, Ledezma, Leonardo, Essenfeld, Erwin, Essenfeld, Harold, Núñez, María
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Arboviroses
Biological and medical sciences
Brief Reports
Dengue
Dengue fevers
Dengue hemorrhagic fever
Disease manifestations
Fatal Outcome
Female
Human viral diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Intensive care units
Medical sciences
Platelets
Respiratory diseases
Severe Dengue - complications
Spleen
Splenic rupture
Splenic Rupture - complications
Thrombocytopenia
Tropical medicine
Tropical viral diseases
Viral diseases
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Summary:Dengue fever is an endemic mosquito-borne viral disease of the tropical and subtropical regions of the world that is transmitted by the bite of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. All four dengue serotypes cause a variety of clinical manifestations such as sudden onset of fever with chills, headache, retro-orbital pain, general malaise, myalgias, arthralgias, cutaneous erythema, early neutropenia with lymphocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and mild elevation of liver enzymes. A more-severe clinical form of the disease is the dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF /DSS), which is characterized by hemoconcentration (hematocrit increased >20%), thrombocytopenia (platelet count,
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/516971