2016
DOI: 10.7869/tg.354
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Gastrointestinal spectrum of dengue fever in a dengue epidemic

Abstract: Background: Every year thousands of individuals are affected by dengue viral infections in India. It has been a major public health problem in our country, in view of fatal outbreaks in the last few decades. In addition to classical clinical features, dengue may manifest with various atypical complications. Methods: We did a cross-sectional study on 35 patients in our gastroenterology department during the dengue epidemic which occurred in 2013-2014. Results: During this period a total of 219 patients were adm… Show more

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“…In a study 8.6% of patients with Dengue fever had acute cholecystitis, 8.6% acute viral hepatitis, 5.7% had acute appendicitis, 5.7% had acute pancreatitis. 9 Of these GI manifestations nausea, vomiting, pain abdomen, GI bleed, jaundice, ascites, elevation of transaminases, acute fulminant hepatitis and acute pancreatitis correlated with severity of Dengue fever. In a study by Pain abdomen, abdominal tenderness, ascites, hepatomegaly and jaundice were predictors of need for Intensive care.…”
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confidence: 96%
“…In a study 8.6% of patients with Dengue fever had acute cholecystitis, 8.6% acute viral hepatitis, 5.7% had acute appendicitis, 5.7% had acute pancreatitis. 9 Of these GI manifestations nausea, vomiting, pain abdomen, GI bleed, jaundice, ascites, elevation of transaminases, acute fulminant hepatitis and acute pancreatitis correlated with severity of Dengue fever. In a study by Pain abdomen, abdominal tenderness, ascites, hepatomegaly and jaundice were predictors of need for Intensive care.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Dengue, a challenging arboviral disease 1 prevalent in the tropics, is very rarely known to present with acute colitis, with our literature search showing only two such cases 2 , 3 reported worldwide so far. Although upper gastrointestinal involvement in dengue fever is reported more frequently, including upper GI bleeding with endoscopic evidence of the same, 4 , 5 colonic involvement and colonoscopy-proven colitis are very rare. Here, we describe the case of a patient with dengue fever who presented with acute colitis and hematochezia and was treated by our department.…”
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confidence: 99%