Severe Hepatic-Neurological Complications of Dengue Fever in Children from a Tertiary Care Center in North India
Journal Title: Journal Of Pediatric Critical Care - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Objective To present clinical experience and outcome of severe hepatic-neurological complications of dengue fever. Methods-From August to November 2015, all confirmed dengue cases admitted to Pediatric intensive care unit(PICU) were studied and data was retrospectively collected and analyzed. Results-Out of 196 confirmed dengue cases 11 had severe hepatic-neurological complications Neurological complications were seen in 7 patients of which 2 had meningoencephalitis, 2 had meningitis and 3 had seizures. All recovered completely except one who had sequelae. Acute liver failure occurred in 4 and 3 recovered completely except one who expired. Conclusions-Use of N-acetylcysteine in ALF is found to be beneficial. In our experience outcome of these complications is good, however larger trials are needed to investigate further.
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Pradeep kumar Sharma, Maneesh Kumar, Ashish Sahani, Rohit Goyal
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- EP ID EP339385
- DOI 10.21304/2016.0303.00129
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