Retrospective study of clinical profile and outcome of pediatric dengue cases in a teaching hospital
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https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20164609Keywords:
Atypical presentations, Complications, Dengue fever, Thrombocytopenia, Warning signs, WHOAbstract
Background: Dengue fever is an acute febrile illness caused by 4 closely related viral serotypes of the genus Flavivirus. Dengue has a broad range of clinical manifestations and often with unpredictable clinical evaluation and outcome. So this study has been done to see the wide range of clinical presentation of dengue and its outcome.
Methods: It is a retrospective study done in tertiary hospital during the period of 8 months. Study was done by collecting the previous records from hospital record section. There were 48 cases of serologically confirmed cases of dengue which satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study.
Results: In our study there were 52% of the cases of dengue fever, 16.6% of cases were dengue fever with warning signs and remaining 31.4% of patients were severe dengue. Common Clinical symptoms at admission were fever (100%), vomiting (77%), respiratory distress (56.25%), generalised weakness (54.1%) and pain abdomen (33.3%). Less common symptoms were loose stools (6.25%), periorbital puffiness (6.25%), altered sensorium (4.1%), oliguria (2%) and bleeding manifestations (2%). Out of these dengue children 70.8% of these children improved without complication, 20.8 % of children improved with complication, in the form of ARDS, acute liver failure, DSS, meningitis, 6.25 % of these children went DAMA and 2 % of children expired.
Conclusions: In our study atypical presentations like respiratory distress, loose stools meningitis were commonly noted and bleeding manifestation at admission was rare in our study. Platelet transfusions have little role in management of dengue patients. Early diagnosis, careful monitoring and proper fluid management goes a long way in reducing the mortality due to dengue hemorrhagic fever and shock syndrome.
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