A case of imported dengue fever.
- Author:
Myung Soo KIM
1
;
Ja Kyung KIM
;
Young Keun KIM
;
Kkot Sil LEE
;
Joon Sup YEOM
;
Aejung HUH
;
Kyung Hee CHANG
;
Young Goo SONG
;
June Myung KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. jmkim@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Dengue fever;
Imported disease;
Tropical disease
- MeSH:
Asian Continental Ancestry Group;
Child;
Dengue*;
Exanthema;
Fever;
Headache;
Hepatomegaly;
Hospitalization;
Humans;
Incidence;
Joints;
Leukopenia;
Malaysia;
Myalgia;
Nausea;
Plasma;
Severe Dengue;
Shock;
Virus Diseases
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2002;62(5):548-551
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Dengue fever (DF) is an acute febrile viral disease frequently presenting with headache, bone or joint and muscular pain, rash and leukopenia. Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is characterized by four major clinical manifestations: high fever, hemorrhagic phenomena, often with hepatomegaly and in severe cases, signs of circulatory failure. Such patients may develop hypovolemic shock resulting from plasma leakage. This is called dengue shock syndrome (DSS) and can be fatal. The disease is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death in children in several Asian, central and south American and African countries. Dengue fever and Dengue hemorrhagic fever have steadily increased in both incidence and distribution over the past 40 years. With an increased air travel, more travelers to the tropics and subtropics are returning within the incubation period of acute febrile infection. We experienced a Korean engineer with complaints of fever, chill, headache, nausea and myalgia after return from Malaysia and confirmed as dengue fever.
