Dengue fever with encephalitis: a rare phenomenon
Gaurav Bahetia, Varshil Mehtab, Menka Ramchandanic, Gopal Chandra Ghoshd e✉
- aDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- bDepartment of Internal Medicine, MGM Medical College Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- cDepartment of Internal Medicine, Government Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
- dDepartment of Cardiology, Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
- egcghosh86{at}gmail.com
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
The clinical profile and presentation of patients with dengue fever may differ from asymptomatic infection to the dreadful complications like dengue shock syndrome. However, neurological complications are very rare. Dengue encephalitis occurs by a direct involvement of central nervous system by the dengue virus which is an extremely rare complication. A 33-year-old man presented with fever, vomiting and severe headache. He had one episode of generalised tonic-clonic seizure followed by an altered sensorium on the day of admission to the hospital. The diagnosis of dengue fever was confirmed by dengue serology (IgM) and (NS1) antigen assay. MRI brain was suggestive of encephalitis. Thus, the patient was treated symptomatically and discharged in stable condition with minimal neurological deficit.
TL;DRA 33-year-old man presented with fever, vomiting and severe headache, and MRI brain was suggestive of encephalitis, and he was treated symptomatically and discharged in stable condition with minimal neurological deficit. (Semantic Scholar)