Extensive haemorrhagic necrosis of liver is an unpredictable fatal complication in dengue infection: A postmortem study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kularatne, SAM ^a   Imbulpitiya, IVB ^b   Abeysekera, RA ^b   Waduge, RN ^a   Rajapakse, RPVJ ^a   Weerakoon, KGAD ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b Teaching Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Autopsy study; Dengue fever; Liver cell necrosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; FATALITY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER NECROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOUNG ADULT; CASE REPORT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER FAILURE; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; DENGUE VIRUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; SEVERE DENGUE; YOUNG ADULT;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1;

EID: 84901982586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-141     Document Type: Article

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