Severe Dengue Fever with Haemolytic Anaemia—A Case Study

Dengue fever, the most common arthropod-borne viral infection in South East Asia, is increasing in prevalence due partially to increased awareness and better diagnostic methods. While haematologic complications, such as cytopeniae and bleeding, may occur in severe dengue infection due to a variety o...

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Autores principales: Aye, Mra, Cabot, Jason, William, Lee Wei Kiat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30270857
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed1010006
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description Dengue fever, the most common arthropod-borne viral infection in South East Asia, is increasing in prevalence due partially to increased awareness and better diagnostic methods. While haematologic complications, such as cytopeniae and bleeding, may occur in severe dengue infection due to a variety of aetiologies, reports of haemolytic anaemia in dengue fever are scant. We report a case of severe dengue fever with haemolytic anaemia following the critical phase of infection.
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spelling pubmed-60820422018-09-24 Severe Dengue Fever with Haemolytic Anaemia—A Case Study Aye, Mra Cabot, Jason William, Lee Wei Kiat Trop Med Infect Dis Case Report Dengue fever, the most common arthropod-borne viral infection in South East Asia, is increasing in prevalence due partially to increased awareness and better diagnostic methods. While haematologic complications, such as cytopeniae and bleeding, may occur in severe dengue infection due to a variety of aetiologies, reports of haemolytic anaemia in dengue fever are scant. We report a case of severe dengue fever with haemolytic anaemia following the critical phase of infection. MDPI 2016-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6082042/ /pubmed/30270857 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed1010006 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full Severe Dengue Fever with Haemolytic Anaemia—A Case Study
title_fullStr Severe Dengue Fever with Haemolytic Anaemia—A Case Study
title_full_unstemmed Severe Dengue Fever with Haemolytic Anaemia—A Case Study
title_short Severe Dengue Fever with Haemolytic Anaemia—A Case Study
title_sort severe dengue fever with haemolytic anaemia—a case study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30270857
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed1010006
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