Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases ()

Dengue hemorrhagic fever complicated by pancreatitis

  • Guido Ricardo Gonzalez Fontal,
  • Andres Felipe Henao-Martinez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-86702011000500015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 5
pp. 490 – 492

Abstract

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Acute pancreatitis is an atypical complication of dengue fever and is rarely described. We are reporting a case of dengue hemorrhagic fever complicated by acute pancreatitis in a patient with history of diabetes mellitus type 1 and end stage renal disease on hemodialysis.

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