Factors Affecting Outcome in Children with Dengue in Kolkata

Indian Pediatr. 2017 Sep 15;54(9):778-780.

Abstract

This observational, descriptive study was conducted on 260 dengue patients diagnosed as per the revised 2009 WHO guidelines in a tertiary-care hospital of eastern India between June and November 2015. Children were evaluated for clinical symptoms, signs, and laboratory parameters. Clinical variables viz., rash, nausea/vomiting, bleeding, oliguria, capillary leak and liver enlargement; and laboratory variables viz., rising haemoglobin, haematocrit, thrombocytopenia, blood urea, serum Creatinine, ALT, hypo albuminemia and cholesterol were found to be significantly associated with outcome.

Publication types

  • Observational Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Dengue* / complications
  • Dengue* / epidemiology
  • Dengue* / mortality
  • Exanthema
  • Hemorrhage
  • Humans
  • India / epidemiology
  • Infant
  • Nausea
  • Risk Factors