Dengue fever with encephalitis: a rare phenomenon.

Gaurav Baheti1, Varshil Mehta2, Menka Ramchandani3

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

BMJ Case Reports
|June 18, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Dengue encephalitis, a rare neurological complication of dengue fever, can present with seizures and altered consciousness. This case highlights a patient with confirmed dengue fever who developed encephalitis, emphasizing the need for awareness of its rare neurological manifestations.

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