Title: Syndromic Approach to Diagnosis of Viral Thrombocytopenic Fever
Authors: Dr Keshav Kumar, Dr (Prof. & HOD) P.K. Agrawal
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v9i10.19
Abstract
Introduction
- Acute febrile illness with thrombocytopenia is quite common in the tropics. Most of them have a benign course with nonspecific symptoms.
- Dengue is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease.
- It is estimated that over 390 million dengue virus infections occur each year throughout the world.
- The clinical manifestations of dengue range from self-limited dengue fever (DF) to dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) with shock syndrome.
- CDC classifies dengue into
- Dengue fever without warning signs
- Dengue fever with warning signs
- Dengue shock syndrome