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| LETTER TO EDITOR |
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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 154 |
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Dengue and rectus sheath hematoma
Somsri Wiwanitkit1, Viroj Wiwanitkit2
1 Wiwanitkit House, Bangkhae, Bangkok, Thailand
2 Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China
| Date of Web Publication | 27-Feb-2015 |
Correspondence Address:
Somsri Wiwanitkit
Wiwanitkit House, Bangkhae, Bangkok
Thailand
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.152280
How to cite this article:
Wiwanitkit S, Wiwanitkit V. Dengue and rectus sheath hematoma. J Family Med Prim Care 2015;4:154 |
Dear Editor,
The report on "dengue and rectus sheath hematoma" is very interesting. [1] Sharma et al. reported a case with this extremely rare complication of dengue and mentioned that there was only one previous publication on this dengue complication. [1] In fact, there are >1 previous report on this problem. The report by Ganeshwaran et al. is the first report addressing this important problem in dengue. [2] In that report from Sri Lanka, "tear in the inferior epigastric artery following episodes of retching" is mentioned to be the cause of bleeding in the reported dengue patient. [2] After this case report, there are a sporadic report on this problem. At least a recent additional case was published in Am J Emerg Med. [3],[4] Tong et al. concluded that the abdominal mass, due to rectus sheath hematoma, was a forgotten presentation of dengue. [5]
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| 1. | Sharma A, Bhatia S, Singh RP, Malik G. Dengue fever with rectus sheath hematoma: A case report. J Family Med Prim Care 2014;3:159-60.  |
| 2. | Ganeshwaran Y, Seneviratne SM, Jayamaha R, De Silva AP, Balasuriya WK. Dengue fever associated with a haematoma of the rectus abdominis muscle. Ceylon Med J 2001;46:105-6. |
| 3. | Waseem T, Latif H, Shabbir B. An unusual cause of acute abdominal pain in dengue fever. Am J Emerg Med 2014;32:819.e3-4. |
| 4. | Wiwanitkit V. Acute abdominal pain and dengue fever. Am J Emerg Med 2014;32:679. |
| 5. | Tong P, Yeoh CJ, Yong EL. Abdominal mass and a forgotten haemorrhagic fever. Lancet 2010;376:140. |
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