Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease endemic in tropical countries. The spectrum of presentation of dengue fever ranges from classical flu like illness to dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. It is usually regarded as a non-neurotropic virus and neurological manifestatio...
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| author | Rajesh Rajput Deepak Jain Ashima Mittal Anoop Kumar Vaibhav Pathak |
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| description | Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease endemic in tropical countries. The spectrum of presentation of dengue fever ranges from classical flu like illness to dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. It is usually regarded as a non-neurotropic virus and neurological manifestations of dengue are rare and hypokalemic quadriparesis is even rarer. Here we present a case report of a patient who presented with hypokalemic quadriparesis due to dengue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-84fff083f7874e5894e9be069f2caa222023-12-02T11:20:34ZengPAGEPress PublicationsItalian Journal of Medicine1877-93441877-93522017-05-0111439339510.4081/itjm.2017.767619Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case reportRajesh Rajput0Deepak Jain1Ashima Mittal2Anoop Kumar3Vaibhav Pathak4Department of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDepartment of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDepartment of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDepartment of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDepartment of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDengue fever is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease endemic in tropical countries. The spectrum of presentation of dengue fever ranges from classical flu like illness to dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. It is usually regarded as a non-neurotropic virus and neurological manifestations of dengue are rare and hypokalemic quadriparesis is even rarer. Here we present a case report of a patient who presented with hypokalemic quadriparesis due to dengue.http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/767Dengue feverquadriparesishypokalemiamosquito borne disease. |
| spellingShingle | Rajesh Rajput Deepak Jain Ashima Mittal Anoop Kumar Vaibhav Pathak Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report Italian Journal of Medicine Dengue fever quadriparesis hypokalemia mosquito borne disease. |
| title | Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report |
| title_full | Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report |
| title_fullStr | Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report |
| title_short | Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report |
| title_sort | dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis a case report |
| topic | Dengue fever quadriparesis hypokalemia mosquito borne disease. |
| url | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/767 |
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