Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report

Dengue is an arboviral disease endemic in many parts of the world. Although it is known to cause hepatic involvement commonly, it only occasionally results in acute hepatic failure. We present the case of a young male who developed acute hepatic failure due to dengue. The differentials and the manag...

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Autores principales: Giri, Subhash, Agarwal, Mukul P, Sharma, Vishal, Singh, Ankur
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18831758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-204
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author Giri, Subhash
Agarwal, Mukul P
Sharma, Vishal
Singh, Ankur
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Singh, Ankur
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description Dengue is an arboviral disease endemic in many parts of the world. Although it is known to cause hepatic involvement commonly, it only occasionally results in acute hepatic failure. We present the case of a young male who developed acute hepatic failure due to dengue. The differentials and the management is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-25665682008-10-11 Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report Giri, Subhash Agarwal, Mukul P Sharma, Vishal Singh, Ankur Cases J Case Report Dengue is an arboviral disease endemic in many parts of the world. Although it is known to cause hepatic involvement commonly, it only occasionally results in acute hepatic failure. We present the case of a young male who developed acute hepatic failure due to dengue. The differentials and the management is discussed. BioMed Central 2008-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2566568/ /pubmed/18831758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-204 Text en Copyright © 2008 Giri et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Giri, Subhash
Agarwal, Mukul P
Sharma, Vishal
Singh, Ankur
Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report
title Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report
title_full Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report
title_fullStr Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report
title_short Acute hepatic failure due to dengue: A case report
title_sort acute hepatic failure due to dengue: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18831758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-204
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