DENGUE FEVER

Objectives: To note ultrasound findings in patient of Dengue Fever in pediatricage group and to find relation between ultrasonographic findings and severity of diseasein terms decrease in platelets. Study Design: Cross sectional descriptive study. Setting:Department of Pediatric Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar. Period: August 2017 to Dec 2017.Methodology: Data was collected randomly from 183 patients using pre designed questionnaireby interviewers for biodata, ultrasonography for radiological findings and analyzed by SPSS21.0. Mean ± standard deviation was calculated for numerical variables like age where as forcategorical variables frequency and percentage was calculated. Results: In the study 56.3%were males while 43.7% were recorded as females with mean age of 6.53 ± 3.40 Years. 18.6%showing anti-dengue serology (IgG & IgM) positive while 94.5% subjects showed positive NS-1,in other investigations 87% had thrombocytopenia in different categories with mild > moderate> severe. In the ultrasongraphic findings hepatomegaly and spleenomegaly shared maximumnumbers of 28.4% while Ascites 23.5%, Pleural Effusion 7.1% & Gall Bladder thickness 7.1%.A P-Value of ≤0.05 was found when all these ultrasonographic findings were correlated withseverity of disease in terms of decrease in numbers of platelets. Conclusion: DEN Virus iscommon most disease in our part of world. This study shows maximum number of patients withNS-1 shows hepatomegaly and spleenomegaly in ultrasonographic changes and the positiverelation has been shown between decrease in platelets count with ultrasonographic findings.