A Hospital Based Observational Study to Evaluate the Laboratory Profile of Dengue Patients

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Aim:  The aim of the present study was to evaluate the laboratory profile of dengue patients. Material & Methods: A Prospective, observational study carried out at a Department of General Medicine during the duration of 10 months. Study population was all indoor patients with dengue fever having age group of more than 12 years. 100 patients with dengue fever were selected for study. Results: In our study out of 100 subjects, 60 were male and 40 were female. The age of the patient in our study group range between 13 to 80 years. Mean age of the study was 45.5 years. Most of the patients diagnosed as a dengue fever presents with fever, body ache, chills, generalized weakness and rarely some patient may present with rash, vomiting, melena, hematuria, itching, photophobia and neck stiffness accompanied by facial flush and other flu like symptoms. The fever usually continues for two days to seven days and can be as high as 41 degrees Celsius. Patients with fever accompanied with tachycardia, some patients also had bradycardia may be due to myocarditis. Few patients in our study were also had blanching, hypotention and neck stiffness. In our study the laboratory findings suggest that the dengue fever patient present with thrombocytopenia most commonly and associated with leukopenia. Conclusion: Dengue is a mild acute febrile illness; most of the patients do not develop complications and recover completely. Commonly patients present with fever, headache, and myalgia. The laboratory findings suggest that the dengue fever patient present with thrombocytopenia most commonly and associated with leukopenia.