Severe dengue categories as research endpoints—Results from a prospective observational study in hospitalised dengue patients

Kerstin D Rosenberger, Neal Alexander, Eric Martinez, Lucy C S Lum, Carl-Erik Dempfle, Thomas Junghanss, Bridget Wills, Thomas Jaenisch and the DENCO Clinical Study Group

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: Severe dengue was perceived as one clinical disease entity until the WHO 2009 classification stratified it into severe vascular leakage, severe bleeding, and severe organ dysfunction. The objectives of this study were to investigate the potential use of severe dengue categories as endpoints for intervention research. 271 patients with severe dengue among 1734 confirmed dengue patients were followed prospectively in this hospital-based observational study in Latin America and Asia. We compared the distribution of severe dengue categories according to gender and age (below/above 15y), and determined the relative frequency and the overlap of severe dengue categories in the same patients. In a next step, we extended the analysis to candidate moderate severity categories, based on recently suggested definitions which were adapted for our purposes. Severe vascular leakage occurred in 244 (90%), severe bleeding in 39 (14%), and severe organ dysfunction in 28 (10%) of 271 severe dengue patients. A higher frequency of severe leakage was seen in children or adolescents (

Date: 2020
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