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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
País: | Brazil
Título: | Autoimmune features caused by dengue fever: a case report
Autores: | Jardim,Denis Leonardo Fontes; Tsukumo,Daniela Miti Lemos; Angerami,Rodrigo N.; Carvalho Filho,Marco Antonio de; Saad,Mário José Abdalla.
Data: | 2012-02-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Dengue; Autoimmunity; Hematologic diseases.
Resumo: | Dengue virus is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. Co-circulation of the four types of dengue viruses and expansion of dengue epidemic gave rise to infection enhancement and a big expansion of clinical aspects of the disease. Herein we report a case of a 25-year-old white woman with dengue fever and numerous associated autoimmune features. Our patient had proteinuria, an extensive right pleural effusion, a thin pericardial effusion and ascites. She had a low C3 level and positive antinuclear antibody; cryoglobulins were also positive. The numerous autoimmune features of this patient were a diagnostic challenge, since she was a young woman and could be easily mistaken for a rheumatologic patient in a newly open disease. Dengue infection probably was a triggering event causing an abnormal immune response. Therefore, dengue should be suspected in patients with hematological disorders and autoimmune features in endemic regions or those who have travelled to those regions.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/report
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702012000100018
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702012000100018
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.16 n.1 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess