Clinical and biomedical features, on adult patients infected Dengue virus at Hue Central Hospital

ABSTRACT

99 patients over 15 year old were treated at Hue central Hospital from July 2002 to May 2003. 45.5% was in male and 54.5% in female. The most prevalence of age group was from 15 to 24 years old (72.7%). The symptom of abdominal pain in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 61.8% and 46.2% in Dengue fever, alvine flux in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 58.8% and 47.7% in Dengue fever. Liver intumescence in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 29.4% and 7.7% in Dengue fever, pain in epigastric region in Dengue haemorrhagic fever was 32.4% and 9.2% in Dengue fever. The signs of headache, retroorbital pain, muscles and joints, supracondylar intumescence and along to sternocleidomastoid muscle had equal prevalence in Dengue haemorrhagic fever and Dengue fever. Based on Dengue haemorrhagic fever degree of WHO, most of cases were in degree II (82.4%), degree I (11.8%) and degree III (5.8%). All 99 cases, who were diagnosed with Dengue haemorrhagic fever (100%) by basic systems, only 34.3% of cases with Dengue haemorrhagic fever were re-diagnosed by hospitals, the rest 65.7% cases were Dengue fever