CLINICAL PROFILE OF DENGUE INFECTION IN A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL OF WESTERN UP (NORTH INDIA)

Dr. Anurag Prasad; Dr. Aditi Rajan; Dr. Showkat Nazir

Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

CLINICAL PROFILE OF DENGUE INFECTION IN A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL OF WESTERN UP (NORTH INDIA)

Dr. Anurag Prasad, Dr. Aditi Rajan, Dr. Showkat Nazir

Abstract :

Introduction: Dengue is a rapidly emerging global health scourge. It has variable clinical presentation with many atypical presentations, thus posing a diagnostic challenge for the physician. Objective: To study the clinical profile of dengue infection during an outeak in August–November, 2017 in a tertiary care teaching hospital of western UP. Material and methods: A prospective, observational, single centre study was carried out on patients of dengue fever who were admitted to the medicine ward of Sharda School of Medical Sciences and Research Hospital. Results: 110 patients were diagnosed as dengue fever based on the presence of NS1 antigen, dengue IgM in blood samples. The common signs and symptoms were fever, headache, bodyache, backache, retro–orbital pain and abdominal pain in 100%, 96.3%, 91.8%, 65.4%, 50%, 45.4% respectively. Final categorization of these patients was DF(71.8%), DHF(25.4%), DSS(1.8%), EDS(3.6%). Atypical presentations included encephalopathy, ARDS and acalculous cholecystitis.