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A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache

About 2.5 billion people are living at a higher risk of dengue fever in hundreds of tropical and sub-tropical countries. Treatment of dengue fever is quite complicated and challenging because of the lack of effective treatment approaches. We herein report a rare case of a 25-year-old female with a p...

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Autores principales: Das, Rajesh, Emon, Md Prova Zaman, Shanu, Sharmin Akter, Akter, Dilruba, Islam, Md Rabiul
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7474559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32913689
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9572
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author Das, Rajesh
Emon, Md Prova Zaman
Shanu, Sharmin Akter
Akter, Dilruba
Islam, Md Rabiul
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description About 2.5 billion people are living at a higher risk of dengue fever in hundreds of tropical and sub-tropical countries. Treatment of dengue fever is quite complicated and challenging because of the lack of effective treatment approaches. We herein report a rare case of a 25-year-old female with a past medical history of haemophilia A, suffering from dengue fever, pleural effusion, earache, myalgia, headache, and vomiting. Dengue was confirmed by the non-structural protein 1 (NS1) antigen and immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody test. She had low blood pressure (80/60 mmHg), frequent vomiting, and low platelet count during hospitalization. Moreover, a genetic disorder like haemophilia with plasma leakage and earache made the patient's condition worse. However, by repeated platelet infusion, the platelet counts elevated and the patient was discharged from the hospital after nine days. Complete recovery was achieved after 27 days. This is a rare case of dengue; physicians should be aware of the severity of the disease and its management tactics. More discussion and research need to be carried out to develop an effective and optimized treatment and management options to reduce the mortality and morbidity due to dengue fever with a co-morbid disease.
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spelling pubmed-74745592020-09-09 A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache Das, Rajesh Emon, Md Prova Zaman Shanu, Sharmin Akter Akter, Dilruba Islam, Md Rabiul Cureus Internal Medicine About 2.5 billion people are living at a higher risk of dengue fever in hundreds of tropical and sub-tropical countries. Treatment of dengue fever is quite complicated and challenging because of the lack of effective treatment approaches. We herein report a rare case of a 25-year-old female with a past medical history of haemophilia A, suffering from dengue fever, pleural effusion, earache, myalgia, headache, and vomiting. Dengue was confirmed by the non-structural protein 1 (NS1) antigen and immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody test. She had low blood pressure (80/60 mmHg), frequent vomiting, and low platelet count during hospitalization. Moreover, a genetic disorder like haemophilia with plasma leakage and earache made the patient's condition worse. However, by repeated platelet infusion, the platelet counts elevated and the patient was discharged from the hospital after nine days. Complete recovery was achieved after 27 days. This is a rare case of dengue; physicians should be aware of the severity of the disease and its management tactics. More discussion and research need to be carried out to develop an effective and optimized treatment and management options to reduce the mortality and morbidity due to dengue fever with a co-morbid disease. Cureus 2020-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7474559/ /pubmed/32913689 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9572 Text en Copyright © 2020, Das et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Das, Rajesh
Emon, Md Prova Zaman
Shanu, Sharmin Akter
Akter, Dilruba
Islam, Md Rabiul
A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache
title A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache
title_full A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache
title_fullStr A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache
title_full_unstemmed A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache
title_short A Haemophilic Dengue Patient with Pleural Effusion and Earache
title_sort haemophilic dengue patient with pleural effusion and earache
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7474559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32913689
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9572
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