[Dengue in patients hospitalized in the hospital ward of zoonoses and tropical diseases in Warsaw in years 2002-2011].

The article presents the clinical course of Dengue in 22 patients hospitalized in the Ward of Tropical Diseases and Zoonoses in Warsaw in 2002-2011. Dengue belong to hemorrhagic fevers.The virus which causes dengue (DENV) belonging to the Flaviviridae family of RNA viruses. It is transmitted by arthropods (mosquitoes Aedes). Among the hospitalized patients most aged 20-30 years (10 people), there were more women than men. There were two foreigners from Asia and Central America. The majority of patients visited regions of South East Asia (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam) then India, Brazil and Mexico. Most of hospitalized people had light and average course. Symptoms of the disease usually occurred shortly after returning from the visited region and were not specific (flulike). In of one of the patients the course was very heavy. The average hospital stay was 9 days, the longest, in one person was 27 days. All patients were treated symptomatically, one person received a platelet transfusion twice without complications. Two people were treated with steroid drugs. All patients were discharged without serious consequences for health and life.