Sadia Naeem, Anum Pari, Nida Gulzar, Shahwar Yousaf, Muhammad Shoaib Akhtar.
Mortality Rate of patients with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(1):337-9.

Background : A total of 1% of these persons are given a diagnosis of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and of these persons, the disease causes death in approximately 4% of the cases. The aim of the study was to determine the mortality rate in dengue patients. Methods: This was an observational retrospective study, where the data was retrieved for 200 patients from the hospital registers and electronic database. The duration of study was of two years starting from May 2014. The exclusion criteria for the study includes all those patients who lose follow up or dengue patients with no information on disease outcome, whereas all those patients who diagnosed for Dengue fever and admitted to the hospital were included in the study. Results: A total of 200 dengue patients whose data was retrieved from the hospital records. 140(70%) out of the total were male and 60(30%) were females. The average ages of all patients were 42.1+10.5. The average age of male patients were below 50 and of females were above 50 years. We observed 34( 17%) of the patients where the outcome was death where as the 83% of the patients survived . Conclusion: Our study demonstrate high mortality rate among dengue patents, seen primarily in adult females. While majority of patients with fetal outcomes presented with common clinical symptoms of severe dengue and seen in all ages.

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