Hepatitis in Dengue Shock Syndrome

• Main Authors: Souza Luiz José de, Carneiro Helder Gonçalves, Souto Filho João Tadeu Damian, Souza Thiago Ferreira de, Côrtes Vitor Azevedo, Gicovate Neto Carlos, Bastos Diogo Assed, Siqueira Edno Wallace da Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2002-01-01
• Series: Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Subjects: Acute hepatitis; dengue; dengue hemorrhagic fever
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702002000600010

Dengue fever is the most frequent arbovirus disease in the world and the most important one in terms of morbidity and mortality. Atypical manifestations of dengue have become commonplace during the last few years, including hepatic damage, which manifests mainly by pain in the right hypochondrium and an increase in the levels of aminotransferases. We describe a case of acute hepatitis in a patient with Dengue Shock Syndrome Grade III. We analyzed the clinical and laboratory aspects of this atypical complication of dengue as well as the differential diagnoses.