Study of clinical profile of dengue fever at tertiary care hospital in rural Maharashtra

 

 

Abstract              Background: Dengue infections can result in a wide spectrum of disease severity ranging from an influenza-like illness (dengue fever; DF) to the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)/dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Aim: To analyze the variations in clinical features of dengue fever patients presented at tertiary care teaching hospital. Material and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted on 110 patients admitted in hospital suffering with dengue. Patient demographic details were noted. All Patients were subjected to detailed history taking interview and underwent general physical and systemic examination. Results: Most number of patients were from younger ages like 30 patients (27.3%) and 29(26.4%) patients in the 25-34 years age group. Fever was the commonest clinical presentation noted in 94.54% of the patients followed by bone and muscle pain in 82.73% patients. Active bleeding manifestations was noted in 7.25% patients. Systemic examination findings revealed CVS findings in 42.73%, respiratory system findings in 7.27% and per-abdominal findings in 12.73% of the patients. Conclusion: Our study shows wide array of clinical findings in dengue fever and their varied presentation. It seems that many factors may be attributed to the differences seen, such as infection with different serotypes or infection with more than one serotype.

Keywords: Dengue fever, fever, myalgia, active bleeding