https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2017.767

Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report

Vol. 11 No. 4 (2017)
Submitted: 15 August 2016
Accepted: 23 May 2017
Published: 30 May 2017
Dengue fever, quadriparesis, hypokalemia, mosquito borne disease.
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Rajesh Rajput
Department of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India.
Deepak Jain
jaindeepakdr@gmail.com
Department of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India.
Ashima Mittal
Department of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India.
Anoop Kumar
Department of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India.
Vaibhav Pathak
Department of Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India.
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease endemic in tropical countries. The spectrum of presentation of dengue fever ranges from classical flu like illness to dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. It is usually regarded as a non-neurotropic virus and neurological manifestations of dengue are rare and hypokalemic quadriparesis is even rarer. Here we present a case report of a patient who presented with hypokalemic quadriparesis due to dengue.

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Rajput, R., Jain, D., Mittal, A., Kumar, A., & Pathak, V. (2017). Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report. Italian Journal of Medicine, 11(4), 393–395. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2017.767

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