A pediatric case of imported dengue hemorrhagic fever in Japan

We report a case of imported dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) in a 10‐year‐old Philippine boy. The patient was admitted to the hospital with a 4‐day history of high fever, headache, and malaise, and a 2‐day history of epistaxis and hematemesis. Symptoms deteriorated after admission, and the patient wa...

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Autores principales: Kusama, Yoshiki, Ito, Ken, Tajima, Shigeru, Kutsuna, Satoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29264075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.83
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Sumario:We report a case of imported dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) in a 10‐year‐old Philippine boy. The patient was admitted to the hospital with a 4‐day history of high fever, headache, and malaise, and a 2‐day history of epistaxis and hematemesis. Symptoms deteriorated after admission, and the patient was subsequently diagnosed with DHF. DHF occurs more frequently among cases of reinfection than among cases of primary infection. Therefore, physicians should recognize the difference in the risk of developing DHF between patients in endemic and nonendemic areas.

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