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Ris Factors for Mortality in Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS)
process Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) is the most severe from of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and has a high mortality. There are two major pathological changes in DHF determine the severity of sisease, plasma leakage and bleeding. Cytokines release during the immune responase in dengue virus have been throught to be mediators of the. The study involed 50 children with DSS of whom 13 (26%) died We investigated which clinical signs and laboratory findings are related to mortality. We found that gastrointestinal bleeding and bilateral pleural effusion were significantly more frequent in non-survivors than in survivors (p
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