Infect Chemother.
2008 Dec;40(6):350-354. 10.3947/ic.2008.40.6.350.
Four Cases of Dengue Fever-Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Domestic Literature Review
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University, Bucheon, Korea. mdchoo@schbc.ac.kr
- KMID: 1782305
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3947/ic.2008.40.6.350
Abstract
- Dengue virus infection is an emerging imported disease in Korea. A total of 4 cases of dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever diagnosed at Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Bucheon between January 2001 and December 2007 were retrospectively reviewed. In addition, relevant domestic literatures from Korean bibliographic databases, which matched 'dengue fever', 'dengue hemorrhagic fever' or 'dengue shock syndrome' as key words, have been reviewed. Ten articles (13 patients) met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review. All the patients except for one, who was infected in Africa, were infected in Asian countries: Philippines (4), Indonesia (3), India (2), Cambodia (2), Sri Lanka (1), Thailand (1), Bangladesh (1), Myanmar (1), and Malaysia (1). Clinical manifestations after returning from abroad were as follows: fever (100%), chills (82%), headache (65%), myalgia (53%), nausea (41%), neutropenia (82%), thrombocytopenia (82%), and elevation of AST (82%) and ALT (53%). Most of the patients improved with conservative care except for one who died of dengue shock syndrome.
