Table 3. Clinical Features of the Fatal Laboratory-positive Dengue Cases at Time of Death or End of Hospital Stay, 2007, Puerto Rico.

	Clinical Features of the Fatal Laboratory-positive Dengue Cases At Time of Death or End of Hospital Stay†
Case	Met DHF‡ criteria	Lowest PLTs×109/L	Lowest HCT %	Hemorrhagic Manifestations					Signs of Plasma Leakage			LOS triage to terminal event
				GI	Pulmonary	Vaginal	ICH	Other	Effusion	Low albumin	Hemo-concentrated
1	No	234	46.5	No	No	No	No	Yes	Pleural	Yes	Yes	13.0
2	Yes	53	9.2	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Pleural	Yes	Yes	83.8
3	No	28	5.9	UNK	No	No	UNK	Yes	UNK	UNK	No	DOA
4	Yes	18	20.7	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Pleural Ascites	Yes	No	59.2
5	Yes	50	29.5	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	71.7
6	No	34	24.7	No	No	No	No	No	Ascites	Yes	No	Home
7	Yes	29	33.6	UNK	Yes	No	UNK	Yes	Pleural	Yes	No	30.0
8	Yes	8	45.4	Yes	No	No	UNK	Yes	Ascites	Yes	Yes	19.7
9	No	UNK	UNK	No	Yes	No	No	No	Pleural Ascites Pericardial	UNK	UNK	DOA
10	No	61	34.5	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	124.8
11	Yes	32	26.1	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Pleural	Yes	No	91.8

This table describes the clinical features of laboratory positive dengue case-patients at time of death or end of hospital stay.

†: DHF = dengue hemorrhagic fever; PLT = platelet; HCT = hematocrit; GI = gastrointestinal; ICH = intracranial hemorrhage; LOS = length of stay.

‡: DHF criteria as defined by World Health Organization in Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control. Second edition. Geneva: World Health Organization.