Transient Blindness in A Child with Dengue Shock Syndrome
Abstract
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is characterized by acute fever associated With haemorrhagic diathesis and tendency to develop fatal shock (dengue shock syndrome). Signs and symptoms of DHF are generally secondary to plasma leakage and hemorrhage. Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) is a severe clinical manifestation of DHF usually as a consequence of severe plasma leakage. During tire last 5 years, there have been reports of DHF patients with unusual manifestations, including some patients with central nervous system (CNS) involvement We report a 5 year old DHF patient who experienced transient blindness, which was the first case found in Soetomo Hospital, Surabaya.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Accepted 2017-12-15
Published 2017-12-15
