Clinical Pearls!

• Dengue fever can present as a separate clinical entity called Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever which presents with shock from plasma leakage syndrome, marked thrombocytopenia, and spontaneous bleeding
• Fever Pattern with Dengue infection: Continuous or occasionally the fever abates for a day and then returns, a pattern referred to as “saddleback fever”
• Lab abnormalities in Dengue Fever Include: Thrombocytopenia, Leukopenia, Anemia is less common, AST elevation