Dengue Fever

Lipid levels can identify high-risk pediatric patients

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 14th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Plasma lipid levels can be used to identify children with the most severe cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), researchers say.

Dr. Eric C.M. van Gorp and colleagues at Slotervaart Hospital in Amsterdam, St. Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the University of Diponegoro in Semarang, Indonesia, examined prognostic factors in pediatric DHF and dengue shock syndrome patients.

Lowered lipid concentrations marked patients with the greatest clinical needs, van Gorp and coauthors found.

The researchers evaluated 50 children with grade III or higher DHF and/or...

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