Dengue-Associated Acute Pancreatitis Affects 1 in 8 Hospitalized Patients

Acute pancreatitis in dengue patients increases risk of mortality, prolonged hospitalization, and serious complications including acute lung injury, gastrointestinal bleeding, and acute kidney injury.

As dengue fever continues its global expansion — now threatening nearly four billion people — a meta-analysis of eight international studies has surfaced a complication long hiding in plain sight: acute pancreatitis, developing in roughly one of every eight hospitalized dengue patients. The finding, drawn from over a thousand cases across five countries, suggests that the disease's burden runs deeper than fever and rash, and that clinical practice has not yet caught up with the full scope of its dangers. In the gap between what medicine has measured and what patients have silently endured, the

Dengue-Associated Acute Pancreatitis Affects 1 in 8 Hospitalized Patients

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