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Febre da dengue

Última revisão: 5 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 03 May 2024

Resumo

Definición

Anamnesis y examen

Principales factores de diagnóstico

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • febre
  • rubor na pele/erupção cutânea
  • mialgia/artralgia/cefaleia
  • sinais hemorrágicos
  • letargia/inquietação
  • hepatomegalia
  • distensão abdominal
  • dor torácica pleurítica, dispneia, tosse
  • sinais de colapso circulatório
Todos los datos

Otros factores de diagnóstico

  • sintomas gastrointestinais
  • sintomas no trato respiratório superior
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Factores de riesgo

  • residência/viagem a região endêmica de dengue nas últimas 2 semanas
  • crianças de 1 a 5 anos de idade
  • idade avançada
  • gestação
  • presença de comorbidades
  • exposição a hemoderivados infectados
  • viver com recipiente de água descoberto
  • sexo feminino
  • obesidade
  • grupo sanguíneo O
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Pruebas diagnósticas

Primeras pruebas diagnósticas para solicitar

  • Hemograma completo
  • testes da função hepática
  • nível de albumina sérica
  • sorologia
  • reação em cadeia da polimerase via transcriptase reversa (RT-PCR)
  • detecção de proteína não estrutural 1 (NS1)
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Pruebas diagnósticas que deben considerarse

  • exames de coagulação
  • radiografia torácica
  • ultrassonografia abdominal
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Pruebas emergentes

  • reação em cadeia da polimerase isotérmica isolada de transcrição reversa (RT-iiPCR)

Algoritmo de tratamiento

Agudo

Grupo C da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) (sinais de alerta estabelecidos)

Grupo B da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) (desenvolvendo sinais de alerta)

Grupo A da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) (sem sinais de alerta)

Colaboradores

Autores

S.A.M. Kularatne, MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCP (London), FCCP (SL)
S.A.M. Kularatne

Senior Professor

Chair of Medicine

Department of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

University of Peradeniya

Peradeniya

Sri Lanka

Disclosures

SAMK is an author of several references cited in this topic.

Peer reviewers

John McBride, PhD, MBBS, DTM&H, FRACP, FRCPA

Professor of Medicine

James Cook University

Cairns Base Hospital Clinical School

Cairns

Australia

Disclosures

JM declares that he has no competing interests.

Michael Jacobs, MA, PhD, MBBS, FRCP, DTM&H

Consultant

Infectious Diseases

Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

London

UK

Disclosures

MJ declares that he has no competing interests.

Stephen Gluckman, MD

Professor of Medicine

Medical Director

Penn Global Medicine

Penn Center for Primary Care

PA

Disclosures

SG declares that he has no competing interests.

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References

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Key articles

World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia. Comprehensive guidelines for prevention and control of dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever - revised and expanded edition. 2011 [internet publication].Full text

World Health Organization, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). Dengue: guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control. New edition. 2009 [internet publication].Full text

Guo C, Zhou Z, Wen Z, et al. Global epidemiology of dengue outbreaks in 1990-2015: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2017 Jul 12;7:317.Full text  Abstract

Simmons CP, Farrar JJ, Nguyen VV, et al. Dengue. N Engl J Med. 2012;366:1423-1432. Abstract

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