Dengue hemorrhagic fever and severe thrombocytopenia in a patient on mandatory anticoagulation; balancing two life threatening conditions; a case report

BACKGROUND: Managing a severe dengue infection is a challenge specially when complicated by other comorbidities. We report a patient with dengue haemorrhagic fever and spontaneous bleeding who required mandatory anticoagulation for a prosthetic mitral valve replacement. This is the first case report...

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Autores principales: Gamakaranage, Champika, Rodrigo, Chaturaka, Samarawickrama, Sincy, Wijayaratne, Dilushi, Jayawardane, Malaka, Karunanayake, Panduka, Jayasinghe, Saroj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23098331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-272

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23098331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-272

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