Dengue fever: a harmful disease in patients with thrombocytopenia?
We describe 2 patients with autoimmune thrombocytopenic disease who developed classic dengue fever associated with serious bleeding and extremely low platelet counts (1000 cells/mm(3) and 3000 cells/mm(3), respectively). Such patients should be properly advised as to the possibility that common dengue fever may substantially enhance their risk for hemorrhagic complications.
Strobel
M
M
Infectious Diseases Unit, University Hospital, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe (French West Indies), France. strobel@wanadoo.fr
Muller
P
P
Lamaury
I
I
Rouet
F
F
D000328:Adult; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D003715:Dengue / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003716:Dengue Virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000150:complications*