Fatal Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Diabetic with Primary Dengue

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Tropical Medicine
Main Authors: Stalin Viswanathan, Nayyar Iqbal, P. Philip Anemon, G. Shyam Kumar
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010
Subjects:
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/413561
https://doaj.org/article/b54a60e1a3d54701a91ad92dff18a1eb
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Summary: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.

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