Retinal profile: a clinical indicator of severity in dengue fever in a suburban Indian environment.

Purpose: To study the retinal changes in subjects suffering from dengue fever and check if these changes can be taken as sufficient indicator of severity and progression of the disease.

Patients/methods: A detailed history was recorded of 118 patients on whom ocular examination, including direct ophthalmoscopy, indirect ophthalmoscopy and coloured fundus photography, was performed.

Results: Forty-seven percent of patients were found to have posterior segment abnormalities.