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Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2024, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages: 1-6
To study Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics and Risk Factors for Fatality in Geriatric Patients compared with Adult with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever at tertiary hospital.
Correspondence to Author: Dr. Akashdeep Singh * , Dr. Dnyanesh N Morkar1, Dr. Hima Morkar
KLE University’s JNMC Belgaum
Abstract:
Introduction:Dengue fever (DF) has been re-emerging over
the last several decades. A large number of patients were
adults in general and elderly individuals in particular which
was in sharp contrast to the predominant pediatric patients
seen in the dengue epidemics recently. Advanced age per
se has been previously reported to be a high risk factor for
mortality in dengue virus infection. There only few study
in elderly patients, so this study was conducted to find risk
factors for fatality in elderly
Aim Of Study: 1. To Compare clinical and Laboratory manifestations of
DHF between elderly and adults.
2. To identify risk factors for fatality in the elderly
population.
Materials And Methods: This was retrospective study
conducted in patients with DHF admitted between January
2010 to December 2012 in Dr Prabharkar’s KLE Hospital
and research Center Belgaum, Karnataka India, a 2000 bed
multispecialty hospital. Medical records were revived and
detail data was collected for 154 patients.
Citation:
Dr. Akashdeep Singh , To study Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics and Risk Factors for Fatality in Geriatric Patients compared with Adult with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever at tertiary hospital. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2024.
Journal Info
- Journal Name:Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Impact Factor: 1.7
- ISSN: 2831-8064
- DOI: 10.52338/joid
- Short Name: JOID
- Acceptance rate: 55%
- Volume: (2024)
- Submission to acceptance: 25 days
- Acceptance to publication: 10 days
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