Neurological complications of dengue fever: Experience from a tertiary center of north India

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 272-278

  Verma, Rajesh ^a   Sharma, Pawan ^a   Garg, Ravindra Kumar ^a   Atam, Veerendra ^a   Singh, Maneesh Kumar ^a   Mehrotra, Hardeep Singh ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Brachial neuritis; dengue fever; hypokalemic paralysis; myositis; neurological complications

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; POTASSIUM; PREDNISOLONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL NEURITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COURSE EVALUATION; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIC PAROXYSMAL PARALYSIS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INDIA; MALE; MYELITIS; MYOSITIS; NEURITIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPSOCLONUS MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; PARALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SERODIAGNOSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84856500748     PISSN: 09722327     EISSN: 19983549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.91946     Document Type: Article

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