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Preventive transfusion in Dengue shock syndrome-is it necessary?
Lucy Chai See Lum1, Mohammad El-Amin Abdel-Latif, Adrian Yu Teik Goh
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|November 15, 2003
Abstract:
We compared 53 patients with Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) who received preventive transfusions with 53 who did not. Significant differences in the development of pulmonary edema and length of hospitalization (P<.05) and none in hemorrhage (P=.136) were observed. Preventive transfusions did not produce sustained improvements in the coagulation status in DSS.