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Can hematocrit and platelet determination on admission predict shock in hospitalized children with dengue hemorrhagic fever?

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Can hematocrit and platelet determination on admission predict shock in hospitalized children with dengue hemorrhagic fever?

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Wiwanitkit V; Manusvanich P Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Dengue infection is a major public health problem, affecting children in the Southeast Asia region. In Thailand, the dengue hemorrhagic fever is still a major infectious disease among the children with up to two to three epidemics per year. Hemoconcentration accompanied by platelet depletion are the predominant laboratory signs of dengue hemorrhagic fever. Findings from 23 hospitalized patients with dengue hemorrhafic fever in a small outbreak in a provincial hospital in Thailand are reported. The question if hematocrit and platelet determination on admission can predict shock in hospitalized children with dengue hemorrhagic fever was studied. The data from the discharge summary of these patients were studied, focusing on the admission hematology laboratory data. Regression analysis was used to test the correlation between the admission hematology laboratory

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