Dengue Fever Presenting with Acute Colitis

Overview

Journal Indian J Gastroenterol

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 2006 Jun 10

PMID 16763344

Citations 5

Authors

A K Rama Krishna

Shivanand Patil

Grs Srinivas Rao

Ajit Kumar

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Abstract

Gastrointestinal manifestations of dengue fever are mainly in the form of bleeding or liver function abnormalities. Dengue fever presenting as acute colitis-like picture is not reported to date. We report a 50-year-old man with dengue fever presenting with lower gastrointestinal bleeding and colonoscopic features of acute inflammatory colitis.

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