Bitten by a bug or a bag? Transfusion-transmitted dengue: A rare complication in the bleeding surgical patient

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1655-1661

  Oh, Han Boon ^a   Muthu, Vaishnavi ^a   Daruwalla, Zubin J ^b   Lee, Shir Ying ^b   Koay, Evelyn S ^b   Tambyah, Paul A ^c  

^a University Surgical Cluster   (Singapore)

^b Department of Orthopedic Surgery ^*  (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 2; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INCUBATION TIME; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED DENGUE; WEAKNESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DENGUE VIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84937023360     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13054     Document Type: Article

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