Complicated Chikungunya Infection in Tertiary ICU in Western India - A Prospective Study Over 3 Years

Chikungunya is a globally spreading infectious arboviral disease transmitted from a diurnal bite of the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes. It is a disease with sporadic outbreaks. It is now resurfacing in South East Asia especially in India, where it is found to have high mortality and morbidity and presenting with atypical presentation, especially with the neurotropic presentation.

To review clinical profile of patients who required admission in the Intensive care unit with atypical presentation of Chikungunya and to study their clinical spectrum and outcome over a course of three years in India.

Using Established guidelines, we conducted a prospective study in a Tertiary care center where we identified patients who required intensive care admissions and were admitted with complicated chikungunya infection and then evaluated their clinical progression of the disease.

CHIKV infection is rapidly emerging in more than 100 countries and more and more atypical serious neurological manifestations are seen in elderly populations. Many of these patients have high morbidity and mortality.