Prevalencia de comorbilidades en pacientes con dengue con signos de alarma y dengue severo que ingresaron al Hospital de Infectología Dr. José Daniel Rodríguez Maridueña de la ciudad de Guayaquil en el periodo 2015 al 2019.

Abstract

Introduction: Dengue is a viral infection that is spread by the bite of infected female mosquitoes of the Aedes genus. This disease occurs frequently in tropical and subtropical climates. Symptoms in the dengue virus infected patient depend on the category in which they are found. The WHO reported for the year 2019, 390 million cases in the world of these 96 million presented clinical manifestations, Ecuador for 2019, reports 8416 cases considering Guayas as the province with the highest incidence. Objective: To determine the prevalence of comorbidities in patients diagnosed with dengue who attended the Dr. José Daniel Rodríguez Maridueña infectiology hospital during the period 2015 to 2019. Methodology: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted from 2015 to 2019 of all patients diagnosed with dengue with warning signs or severe dengue, confirmed by seroconversion or PCR, who were admitted to the Hospital of Infectiology Dr. José Daniel Rodríguez Maridueña. Results: The prevalence of hospitalized cases is 344, of them 97% presented alarm signs and 3% severe dengue, 5% had preexisting comorbidities, the most frequent being HT, the mortality rate was 2.9 per 1000 hours, was not determined by comorbidities. Conclusion: The patients who had a diagnosis of dengue with warning signs and severe dengue presented comorbidities in an insignificant amount in relation to the sample, the comorbidity with the highest incidence is HT compared to the others, the mortality rate continues to be low, but it can be increased by preexisting comorbidities.