Fatal Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Diabetic with Primary Dengue

Stalin Viswanathan; Nayyar Iqbal; P. Philip Anemon; G. Shyam Kumar

doi:10.1155/2010/413561

Journal of Tropical Medicine (Jan 2010)

Fatal Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Diabetic with Primary Dengue

Stalin Viswanathan,
Nayyar Iqbal,
P. Philip Anemon,
G. Shyam Kumar

Affiliations

Stalin Viswanathan: Department of Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalapet, Pondicherry 605014, India
Nayyar Iqbal: Department of Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalapet, Pondicherry 605014, India
P. Philip Anemon: Department of Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalapet, Pondicherry 605014, India
G. Shyam Kumar: Department of Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalapet, Pondicherry 605014, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/413561
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2010

Abstract

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We report a 49-year-old diabetic with dengue hemorrhagic fever who developed fulminant hepatitis, severe coagulopathy, shock, and refractory metabolic acidosis and died on the eighth day of illness. This is the only second report of an adult with fatal fulminant hepatic failure due to dengue, and the first case arising from a primary dengue infection.

Published in Journal of Tropical Medicine

ISSN: 1687-9686 (Print); 1687-9694 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
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