TO STUDY THE COMPLICATIONS IN DENGUE LIKE ILLNESSES

Authors

  • Girdhari lal Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Rakesh Bilwal Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32553/ijmbs.v4i7.1284

Keywords:

Hematocrit, Dengue, Dengue Like Illness

Abstract

Background: Dengue has a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, often with unpredictable clinical evolution and outcome. While most patients recover following a self-limiting nonsevere clinical course, small proportion progress to severe disease

Methods: The hospital based study was conducted on patients presenting to tertiary care teaching hospital, who fulfilled inclusion and exclusion criteria were enrolled for the study. A comprehensive history taking, physical examination, and lab investigations were carried out and data were collected in pre-designed proforma.

Results: According to complications, in dengue positive cases, bleeding was the most common complication seen in 48.00% cases while shock, myocarditis, and convulsion were present in 31.00%, 2.00% and 1.00% of cases respectively. Among the dengue negative cases, 60.00% had no complication while shock and bleeding were present in 28% and 12.00% cases respectively.

Conclusion: It concluded that shock was most common complication.

Keywords: Hematocrit, Dengue, Dengue Like Illness

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Published

2020-07-11

How to Cite

Sharma, G. lal, & Bilwal, R. (2020). TO STUDY THE COMPLICATIONS IN DENGUE LIKE ILLNESSES. International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies, 4(7). https://doi.org/10.32553/ijmbs.v4i7.1284

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 7 (2020)

Section

Research Articles