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REYES-GARCIA, Selvin Z; ZAMBRANO, Lysien I  e  SIERRA, Manuel. Clinical and hematological characterization of pediatric patients with Dengue in Honduras. Revista médica Risaralda [online]. 2014, vol.20, n.2, pp.95-100. ISSN 0122-0667.

Objective: Characterize cases of dengue in clinic and hematological form of pediatric population in 2010. Place of study: Hospital Escuela Universitario, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Design Study: Observational Descriptive retrospective. Measurements: Were evaluated demographic, clinic and hematologic variables. Results: Out of a total of 2428 patients, 1220 (50.2%) were males. For kind of dengue, were classificated without warnings signs 1107 (45.6%), with warnings signs 836 (34.4%) and severe dengue 485 (20.0%). The mostly frequent clinic manifestations were fever 1956 (80.6%), myalgia 1.506 (62.0%), arthralgia 1.351 (55.6%) and headache 1.242 (51.2%). Were confirmed 48 (1.9%) deaths. Conclusion: The clinic evaluation shown nonspecific symptoms, thereby is difficult get a good diagnostic, the thrombocytopenia was it hematologic test that could be useful in the initial evaluation with suspected cases of dengue

Palavras-chave : Dengue; pediatrics; hrombocytopenia; Honduras.

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