1 00:00:09,183 --> 00:00:10,083 Sara Dong: Hi, everyone. 2 00:00:10,083 --> 00:00:14,853 Welcome to Febrile, a cultured podcast about all things infectious disease. 3 00:00:15,303 --> 00:00:20,793 We use consult questions to dive into ID clinical reasoning, diagnostics, and anti-microbial management. 4 00:00:21,183 --> 00:00:24,063 I'm Sara Dong, your host and a Med-Peds ID fellow. 5 00:00:24,183 --> 00:00:30,033 Here on Febrile, we use patient cases and chat with ID consultants to learn more about high yield ID topics. 6 00:00:30,213 --> 00:00:31,863 My co-host today is Dr. 7 00:00:31,863 --> 00:00:32,973 James Wilson. 8 00:00:33,093 --> 00:00:39,963 James is an ID fellow at the combined Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Health ID fellowship program in Chicago. 9 00:00:40,638 --> 00:00:43,728 He also spends time as an attending hospitalist at Rush as well. 10 00:00:43,908 --> 00:00:49,458 James is a Navy veteran physician of 10 years with airspace and tropical medicine training through the U.S. 11 00:00:49,458 --> 00:00:56,868 Department of Defense with several deployments into tropical and subtropical areas for global health, tropical medicine and disaster relief. 12 00:00:57,228 --> 00:00:59,958 Next, I will welcome our guest consultant today, Dr. 13 00:00:59,958 --> 00:01:01,088 Ryan Maves. 14 00:01:01,128 --> 00:01:07,803 Ryan is a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 15 00:01:07,923 --> 00:01:12,693 He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine. 16 00:01:12,813 --> 00:01:18,313 He currently serves as the medical director of the Transplant ID program and a faculty intensivist at Wake. 17 00:01:18,623 --> 00:01:20,718 Ryan is a retired captain of the U.S. 18 00:01:20,718 --> 00:01:25,338 Navy with 22 years of active duty service and prior deployment to Afghanistan. 19 00:01:25,458 --> 00:01:36,258 His research currently focuses on the epidemiology and treatment of severe viral diseases, including SARS-CoV-2, as well as disaster responses to public health emergencies. 20 00:01:36,347 --> 00:01:37,637 Welcome to the show guys. 21 00:01:38,077 --> 00:01:39,877 James Wilson: Thanks for having us, so excited. 22 00:01:40,124 --> 00:01:40,357 Ryan Maves: Yeah. 23 00:01:40,387 --> 00:01:41,167 Thank you so much. 24 00:01:41,607 --> 00:01:45,387 Sara Dong: Um, and so before we jump into the case, I always ask the same question. 25 00:01:45,687 --> 00:01:48,867 I'm just trying to know a little sort of nonmedical thing about you. 26 00:01:49,107 --> 00:01:53,397 Can you guys share any pieces of culture or things that you've enjoyed recently? 27 00:01:53,427 --> 00:01:54,717 Maybe I'll start with Ryan. 28 00:01:55,122 --> 00:01:55,722 Ryan Maves: Oh, sure. 29 00:01:55,782 --> 00:02:02,742 Um, you know, so I am probably a giant overgrown child. 30 00:02:02,952 --> 00:02:11,382 So, um, so, so, uh, I just came off of, uh, watching Peacemaker on HBO. 31 00:02:11,442 --> 00:02:12,972 And I have 32 00:02:13,047 --> 00:02:14,037 Sara Dong: I just finished it too. 33 00:02:14,037 --> 00:02:14,217 Yeah. 34 00:02:14,262 --> 00:02:21,852 Ryan Maves: I have to say that, you know, I didn't have high expectations, but, um, one of my sons recommended I watch it. 35 00:02:21,852 --> 00:02:22,602 He's 15. 36 00:02:22,602 --> 00:02:28,542 And you know, maybe I shouldn't be in the business of taking, uh, taking TV recommendations from my 15 year old son. 37 00:02:28,542 --> 00:02:36,462 But I gotta tell ya, he's the, you know, my boy is batting a thousand because it was just such a delight. 38 00:02:36,582 --> 00:02:44,232 And I now want to go and buy myself a pet eagle, which is probably illegal, which is probably illegal. 39 00:02:44,262 --> 00:02:46,092 But you understand if you've seen it, you 40 00:02:46,482 --> 00:02:47,352 James Wilson: The Bald eagle one. 41 00:02:47,352 --> 00:02:47,742 Sure. 42 00:02:47,982 --> 00:02:49,602 Ryan Maves: You understand why I want that now. 43 00:02:50,292 --> 00:02:50,952 So that's me. 44 00:02:50,997 --> 00:02:51,357 Sara Dong: Yeah. 45 00:02:52,077 --> 00:02:52,467 Yeah. 46 00:02:53,307 --> 00:02:54,207 What about you, James? 47 00:02:54,972 --> 00:02:58,692 James Wilson: Um, I'm going to sound like I'm just trying to one up, I get this point. 48 00:02:58,742 --> 00:03:01,122 I just started going back through like a lot of Michael Lewis. 49 00:03:01,842 --> 00:03:03,552 Uh, stuff, his podcasts. 50 00:03:03,582 --> 00:03:04,722 They love his podcasts. 51 00:03:04,722 --> 00:03:09,102 And so he rereleased "Liar's Poker" unabridged audio book. 52 00:03:09,102 --> 00:03:12,222 And so I went back through that and "Big Short" and "Flash Boys" and stuff. 53 00:03:12,222 --> 00:03:20,802 So I, I know nothing about the money market or any, or how to do anything financial, which my wife is, is the business major, is a corporate real estate person. 54 00:03:20,802 --> 00:03:24,462 And so she's the one that kind of, shocking, she manages our money. 55 00:03:24,642 --> 00:03:33,582 And so, um, but yeah, I find all that stuff, very fascinating and infuriating, but, uh, and otherwise I, I rock climb. 56 00:03:33,642 --> 00:03:40,302 That's my, like, that's my mental space where I can go and dump my brain for a while and just focus on one problem at a time. 57 00:03:40,482 --> 00:03:42,102 Or fall, which I've done before. 58 00:03:43,062 --> 00:03:43,422 So. 59 00:03:44,547 --> 00:03:45,027 Sara Dong: Love it. 60 00:03:45,087 --> 00:03:45,657 Love it. 61 00:03:46,137 --> 00:03:49,707 Um, well, you know, we have a new consult question today. 62 00:03:49,707 --> 00:03:51,117 I'm so glad you guys are here. 63 00:03:51,117 --> 00:03:56,157 We have a 35 year old who's actually just returned from Thailand with fever and malaise. 64 00:03:56,457 --> 00:03:59,307 So I'm going to hand it over to James to tell us about the case. 65 00:04:00,797 --> 00:04:01,107 James Wilson: Awesome. 66 00:04:01,127 --> 00:04:01,727 Thank you so much. 67 00:04:01,787 --> 00:04:04,117 Uh, uh, Sara, so, uh, Dr. 68 00:04:04,117 --> 00:04:10,017 Maves, a 35 year old gentlemen who has returned from vacation to Thailand. 69 00:04:10,347 --> 00:04:13,377 He's three days post return at this time. 70 00:04:13,677 --> 00:04:19,247 So he was vacationing for two weeks in different urban areas of Thailand, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket. 71 00:04:19,247 --> 00:04:25,077 And this was all during October, uh, and he traveled in between all of them by plane. 72 00:04:25,497 --> 00:04:32,197 So as I had mentioned, he returned three days prior with fevers beginning a day prior to presentation to the office. 73 00:04:32,677 --> 00:04:39,547 Um, and now he reports that he's feeling quote unquote, "blah" uh, and some complaining of some fatigue. 74 00:04:39,967 --> 00:04:52,497 So the patient has been attributing most of this to jet lag until last night when the fever started, and really did associate with a long night out, in Bangkok before he got on the plane early morning, uh, before he returned home. 75 00:04:52,497 --> 00:04:54,507 He stayed in hotels, not hostels. 76 00:04:54,807 --> 00:04:59,967 And he had two new female sexual partners with 90%, he said, condom usage. 77 00:04:59,967 --> 00:05:06,477 So none for foreplay or for oral sex, but for vaginal intercourse, which he had only vaginal and not oral. 78 00:05:06,507 --> 00:05:10,497 And so he took no prophylaxis ongoing to Thailand. 79 00:05:10,527 --> 00:05:15,807 He did no pre-travel clinic visit and he is not been vaccinated for the year for the flu. 80 00:05:16,047 --> 00:05:17,827 And he had no pre-travel vaccinations. 81 00:05:18,172 --> 00:05:20,782 He denies any significant medical history or surgical history. 82 00:05:20,852 --> 00:05:29,122 He endorses heavy alcohol use while he was in country on his vacation, but occasionally while he is out and, you know, at home working. 83 00:05:29,792 --> 00:05:35,212 He did have two episodes of blacking out while traveling, uh, one was in Bangkok and one was in Phuket. 84 00:05:35,612 --> 00:05:40,802 So he was intermittent tobacco use, occasional marijuana use, no IV drug use, and he has no history of STDs. 85 00:05:41,162 --> 00:05:42,752 And he has no known allergies. 86 00:05:43,382 --> 00:05:49,262 So, uh, Ryan, what else would you like to know in this returning traveler who's coming with fever and malaise? 87 00:05:49,362 --> 00:05:49,632 Ryan Maves: Yeah. 88 00:05:49,752 --> 00:05:50,082 All right. 89 00:05:50,082 --> 00:05:50,832 Well, thank you so much. 90 00:05:50,832 --> 00:05:53,112 I mean, that's a, that's a great case and not an unusual case. 91 00:05:53,142 --> 00:06:12,522 Now I think one thing that we do have to just to kind of address the giant elephant in the room of course, is that I assume this took place in 2019, so we can set aside, you know, one of our more common causes of fever in a returning traveler or fever in a non returning traveler or in a non traveler, which is COVID-19. 92 00:06:12,982 --> 00:06:19,522 So setting all of that aside, um, although I do think that is useful for us to remember before we get into really discussing this case. 93 00:06:19,552 --> 00:06:38,242 Is that, in the returning traveler, I think particularly in folks traveling, um, from say Eastern Asia, south Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the like, there is an instinctive desire to reach for the geographically unique diseases that we don't see commonly in North America. 94 00:06:38,392 --> 00:06:38,692 Right. 95 00:06:39,382 --> 00:06:51,202 But it's worth recognizing that both in terms of morbidity and mortality, um, the most common causes of both of those things in returning travelers are relatively cosmopolitan syndromes, right? 96 00:06:51,682 --> 00:06:54,302 Number one and number two causes of death and returning travelers are what? 97 00:06:54,302 --> 00:06:57,142 Their MIs (myocardial infarctions) and car accidents, right? 98 00:06:57,172 --> 00:07:01,462 Neither of which are readily prevented by DEET or vaccination, right? 99 00:07:02,062 --> 00:07:09,772 And similarly among infectious causes, cosmopolitan infections, meaning influenza, meaning other respiratory viruses. 100 00:07:10,162 --> 00:07:13,762 Um, you know, an older folks might be a bit sicker, pneumococcus, right? 101 00:07:14,062 --> 00:07:16,222 Those things still need to be on our list. 102 00:07:16,222 --> 00:07:16,312 So. 103 00:07:17,612 --> 00:07:25,622 You know, we still need to remember to do that kind of standard issue febrile workup and our standard issue assessment of clinical stability. 104 00:07:25,622 --> 00:07:26,672 How sick are they? 105 00:07:26,682 --> 00:07:28,062 Do they require admission? 106 00:07:28,152 --> 00:07:29,502 Are they unstable? 107 00:07:29,712 --> 00:07:31,242 Do they walk in under their own power? 108 00:07:31,242 --> 00:07:36,132 And they're having a conversation, they're satting normally on room air, all those sorts of things we need to consider. 109 00:07:36,522 --> 00:07:39,792 That being said, we will assume that we have set those things aside, right. 110 00:07:39,792 --> 00:07:41,742 We'll assume that we have addressed those. 111 00:07:41,742 --> 00:07:47,022 And we have a pretty good idea that, okay, this guy doesn't have any real respiratory symptoms. 112 00:07:47,412 --> 00:07:49,242 Um, is he tolerating PO? 113 00:07:49,327 --> 00:07:50,237 James Wilson: He is tolerating PO. 114 00:07:50,267 --> 00:07:50,497 Ryan Maves: Okay. 115 00:07:50,497 --> 00:07:54,092 Maybe not much of an appetite, I would gather, but, but is able to keep food down? 116 00:07:54,092 --> 00:07:55,427 James Wilson: It's decreased over the last day, 117 00:07:55,492 --> 00:07:56,002 Ryan Maves: Okay. 118 00:07:56,032 --> 00:07:56,362 Okay. 119 00:07:56,537 --> 00:07:57,807 James Wilson: But he's able to eat and drink. 120 00:07:57,807 --> 00:07:58,197 Ryan Maves: Okay. 121 00:07:58,317 --> 00:07:58,597 Okay. 122 00:07:58,642 --> 00:08:03,172 So that's also encouraging and you said, what did you say about his stool again? 123 00:08:03,202 --> 00:08:05,092 He said some dark stools intermittently. 124 00:08:06,832 --> 00:08:09,342 James Wilson: Uh, no loose stools, no constipation. 125 00:08:09,972 --> 00:08:15,952 Um, he had some on the day after from returning, but he had also had a, a long night out and some street food. 126 00:08:16,042 --> 00:08:16,692 Ryan Maves: Sure, sure. 127 00:08:16,712 --> 00:08:33,182 So his bowel habits aren't anything you'd particularly expect to be abnormal and it, and it is also worth noting, particularly in people returning from Southeast Asia that, you know, Campylobacter very early in its syndrome can be more of a systemic illness before the diarrhea, and occasionally the dysentery really kick in. 128 00:08:33,182 --> 00:08:35,222 And that can kind of sneak up on you a little bit. 129 00:08:35,642 --> 00:08:40,172 Um, but in the absence of any real GI syndrome, it's hard to tag Campylobacter. 130 00:08:40,922 --> 00:08:46,832 So then we're kind of stuck looking at, okay, what are the causes of, and it's useful to give syndromes a name, right? 131 00:08:46,862 --> 00:08:48,962 This is an undifferentiated fever, right? 132 00:08:48,972 --> 00:08:51,642 Did he have much in the way of myalgia or arthralgia? 133 00:08:51,942 --> 00:08:55,032 James Wilson: No myalgia, just malaise, fatigue and fever. 134 00:08:55,062 --> 00:08:56,412 Ryan Maves: And any kind of a rash? 135 00:08:56,492 --> 00:08:57,182 James Wilson: Not complaining of 136 00:08:57,407 --> 00:08:57,857 Ryan Maves: Okay. 137 00:08:57,917 --> 00:08:58,457 Okay. 138 00:08:58,997 --> 00:09:04,367 So with, again, with an undifferentiated fever, there's kind of a list of things that we always need to consider. 139 00:09:04,367 --> 00:09:07,637 Now, Thailand is certainly endemic for malaria in certain areas. 140 00:09:08,087 --> 00:09:11,177 You know, it doesn't sound like, you know, you mentioned he traveled by air. 141 00:09:11,177 --> 00:09:12,827 He was in largely urban areas. 142 00:09:12,827 --> 00:09:15,467 So the odds of malaria are pretty slender, right? 143 00:09:15,467 --> 00:09:17,087 Bangkok is a very modern city. 144 00:09:17,087 --> 00:09:18,707 Chiangmai is a very modern city. 145 00:09:19,157 --> 00:09:22,667 These aren't places where you would expect to find malaria, and they're generally not reported. 146 00:09:23,207 --> 00:09:32,867 Sometimes when we're traveling in a tropical countries, in developing countries, the, the border between urban and rural is how should I say vague? 147 00:09:33,593 --> 00:09:40,303 I spent a number of years working in Peru and my group spent a fair bit of time in, uh, Iquitos, which is a large city in the Peruvian Amazon. 148 00:09:40,333 --> 00:09:50,173 There's a lot of endemic arboviral disease within Iquitos, and there's a lot of malaria outside of Iquitos, but there's not like a wall around Iquitos telling you you're in or out of the city. 149 00:09:50,173 --> 00:09:50,413 Right. 150 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:53,283 It sort of tapers off, . That's not the case in Bangkok. 151 00:09:53,313 --> 00:09:54,603 That's not the case in Chiang Mai. 152 00:09:54,913 --> 00:10:02,633 But it's at least worth seeing that we can't totally exclude malaria and probably doing some evaluation for malaria is reasonable. 153 00:10:02,633 --> 00:10:05,393 Although it seems like that that's relatively less likely. 154 00:10:06,143 --> 00:10:12,593 So the big things that I would be worried about in this gentleman would be arboviral disease, right? 155 00:10:12,623 --> 00:10:14,023 Because that's going to be a big thing. 156 00:10:14,063 --> 00:10:18,353 That's going to be largely dengue in someone returning from Thailand. 157 00:10:18,893 --> 00:10:21,643 Um, other arboviruses, which we can chat about. 158 00:10:21,643 --> 00:10:26,393 And there's some subtle differences between them, but it's very difficult to clinically distinguish between them at the bedside. 159 00:10:27,263 --> 00:10:28,383 Uh and then 160 00:10:29,078 --> 00:10:37,658 Some bacterial infections, so leptospirosis would be a good example of something that can be fairly ubiquitous in tropical settings, in, uh, developing settings. 161 00:10:38,078 --> 00:10:44,858 And then just because we got to mention it is, you know, he did make some special new friends while he was in Thailand. 162 00:10:44,858 --> 00:10:55,488 And although 90%, uh, use of barrier protection is, it's not nothing, but we don't know much about the circumstances of those of those friends. 163 00:10:55,538 --> 00:10:57,068 Did he pay for sex? 164 00:10:57,498 --> 00:11:01,428 I really do think we need to make sure that we're screening him for acute HIV in this setting. 165 00:11:02,358 --> 00:11:11,418 Um, and typically that'd be with some matter of nucleic acid amplification testing, um, So what does that get us to? 166 00:11:11,418 --> 00:11:16,518 I think the thing that we're thinking about, the thing that we're concerned about here is probably dengue, right? 167 00:11:17,148 --> 00:11:24,198 But there is a differential between, uh, both dengue looking at differing degrees of severity. 168 00:11:24,498 --> 00:11:27,118 And there's also the things that track with dengue. 169 00:11:27,708 --> 00:11:34,578 Um, so chikungunya, Zika, um, which are both less common in this part of the world. 170 00:11:35,178 --> 00:11:39,378 Um, and then the things that will mimic it, the things that resemble it, we mentioned influenza earlier. 171 00:11:39,378 --> 00:11:43,358 Leptospirosis would be another one that would be important to try to exclude. 172 00:11:43,378 --> 00:11:47,418 And if we can't exclude it to our satisfaction, at least consider empiric treatment for. 173 00:11:47,645 --> 00:11:58,185 James Wilson: So, you know, when you see him , he came in with a 99.9 for his temperature in Fahrenheit, and he was tach'ing (tachycardic) the 100s. 174 00:11:58,945 --> 00:12:05,085 Uh, but otherwise he had a normal blood pressure of 120s/80s., was satting well on room air. 175 00:12:05,505 --> 00:12:12,245 His exam significantly unremarkable, except for just a mild conjunctival pallor and some dry mucus membranes. 176 00:12:12,755 --> 00:12:15,845 Um, at this point, nothing else had been ordered or done. 177 00:12:15,845 --> 00:12:27,385 So based on that, what would you, you know, you had mentioned something in your differential, you know, maybe like a fourth generation HIV test, um, any other labs that you would like to get up front or other diagnostics? 178 00:12:27,460 --> 00:12:27,820 Ryan Maves: Yeah. 179 00:12:27,910 --> 00:12:35,650 I mean, certainly if we're thinking arboviral infection on the list, as well as the other things we discussed, I think certainly a basic CBC and a chemistry panel is very reasonable. 180 00:12:35,650 --> 00:12:43,060 And particularly in the case of where we're suspecting an arboviral disease, it's very helpful to have a look just at the CBC, right? 181 00:12:43,060 --> 00:12:48,010 Because that is going to give us some hints, both in terms of diagnosis and in severity of illness. 182 00:12:48,640 --> 00:13:03,600 Where, for example, with more severe forms of dengue, I haven't heard anything that would make me think that at this immediate point, there can be features like hemoconcentration, like a unusually high hemoglobin can be a hint as can of course, low platelets would certainly be suggestive of it. 183 00:13:04,170 --> 00:13:19,840 Um, on the chemistry panel, you know, you don't expect to see a lot of, for example, profound transaminase elevations with most of the arboviral infections, but they do occur and that can be at least somewhat useful. 184 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:33,940 Yellow fever is the obvious exception to that, but there is no yellow fever in, in Asia, uh, for reasons that are, I think, incompletely understood, but for whatever reason, yellow fever, just it's in Sub-Saharan Africa, it's in south America or Latin America. 185 00:13:34,270 --> 00:13:35,980 It is not in Asia. 186 00:13:36,490 --> 00:13:40,360 Um, it'll also be helpful because we do have a differential diagnosis here. 187 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:54,640 If we saw, again, he doesn't sound that sick, but if we saw, for example, a profoundly elevated say bilirubin and relatively less elevated transaminases, that would be suggestive of leptospirosis, although certainly not diagnostic. 188 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,230 So I'd getting those just to kind of flesh it out. 189 00:13:57,290 --> 00:14:02,780 And then the other things we talked about, would it be worth screening him on some level for malaria. 190 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:05,990 Intellectually? 191 00:14:07,010 --> 00:14:09,650 I don't think it's necessary, really. 192 00:14:10,010 --> 00:14:10,730 Emotionally? 193 00:14:10,730 --> 00:14:11,570 It would be hard to resist. 194 00:14:12,260 --> 00:14:19,670 Right, but you would, you would want to maybe at least satisfy yourself that you checked, you know. 195 00:14:21,990 --> 00:14:32,580 Beyond that, blood culture certainly can be useful because one thing I neglected to mention would be typhoid and enteric fever can produce this sort of same, um, undifferentiated, febrile illness. 196 00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:34,290 And so getting blood cultures would be useful for that. 197 00:14:34,290 --> 00:14:41,940 And also just to acknowledge that there are other diagnoses besides again, tropical diseases not seen in north America, commonly. 198 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:50,410 Um, Group A strep bacteremia, things that can cause relatively mild disease initially, but can become very severe if missed down the road. 199 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:52,480 He doesn't sound like he has that, but it's just a thought. 200 00:14:53,410 --> 00:14:58,700 Um, so CBC, blood cultures would be reasonable, depending on your assessment of how sick he is. 201 00:14:58,910 --> 00:15:08,180 The one thing that makes me wonder about blood cultures in him a little harder than I normally would is that he's a little tachycardic you mentioned, right? 202 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:11,540 You know, that's not much of a dengue thing, right? 203 00:15:11,540 --> 00:15:21,790 Dengue is one of those things like typhoid, like rickettsia, is it often presents with the Faget sign, the, uh, the disassociation between fever and tachycardia.. 204 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:34,130 Now, if you're dehydrated, if your volume down, if you're bleeding in cases of some very severe cases of dengue or other disorders like that, then certainly that's, that's not a law of nature. 205 00:15:34,130 --> 00:15:41,930 That's not a law of physics that if you're tachycardic and febrile, it can't be dengue, but it's at least worth to consider that that does affect your differential a bit. 206 00:15:42,740 --> 00:15:43,610 Those would be the big ones. 207 00:15:43,610 --> 00:15:49,490 And then I guess we need to think about pathogen specific assays, right? 208 00:15:49,610 --> 00:15:51,020 And there are a whole bunch of those. 209 00:15:51,620 --> 00:16:00,050 So kind of looping back then too, you know, what we think are the most likely entities, uh, diagnosis gets to be pretty tricky here, right? 210 00:16:00,050 --> 00:16:08,990 Cause if we go down the list of kind of the big ticket items here for undifferentiated fevers, um, of viral origin, right? 211 00:16:08,990 --> 00:16:11,750 So we have dengue is the most common one. 212 00:16:12,650 --> 00:16:14,150 And dengue is kind of interesting. 213 00:16:14,180 --> 00:16:24,830 Well, dengue is totally interesting for a variety of reasons, but you know, you could argue that there are four serotypes of dengue, but I think you can argue pretty effectively that there are actually four different species of virus. 214 00:16:24,830 --> 00:16:29,840 And we just lump them as serotypes because they're clinically so similar and clearly very closely related. 215 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:44,270 And honestly, with the emergence of Zika a few years ago, you know, you can kind of make a case that Zika's like dengue five, except that there may already be another dengue five, but there's basically, four main serotypes of dengue. 216 00:16:44,290 --> 00:16:47,160 Thinking about other so dengue is one of the classic flaviviruses. 217 00:16:47,620 --> 00:16:51,730 Um, and it is widespread in urban environments throughout developing countries. 218 00:16:51,730 --> 00:16:57,400 And that's why really in this person, why we're thinking more dengue than malaria, right? 219 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:05,360 Cause if you're, if you're looking at, kind of got to divide this up, and this is useful in both the pre-travel consultation, when we're giving advice to people before they travel overseas, 220 00:17:05,420 --> 00:17:10,010 and in assessing the febrile returning traveler. 221 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:21,350 Malaria is a disease of rural areas, that malaria is spread by, you know, Anopheles mosquitoes, uh, that are in rural areas and they bite you at night, you know, dusk to dawn, right? 222 00:17:21,350 --> 00:17:24,140 So malaria, rural areas, bites you at night. 223 00:17:24,650 --> 00:17:34,430 Dengue on the other hand, so dengue is spread always by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, usually Aedes aegypti, occasionally Aedes albopictus depending on where you are. 224 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,200 It's the tiger mosquito. 225 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:41,720 It's a little less adapted to urban environments, but you see it in like China and Hawaii. 226 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:49,250 And maybe there's like this, like one park in Tokyo that has dengue and that's probably Aedes albopictus that's transmitting it there. 227 00:17:49,730 --> 00:17:54,250 So, Aedes is adapted to urban environment. 228 00:17:54,260 --> 00:18:05,580 So it like it nests and it lays its eggs in like pools of rainwater that form in pots that are in, uh, like old tires lying around and things like that. 229 00:18:05,910 --> 00:18:09,740 And so malaria, rural, bites you at night. 230 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:13,590 Aedes, urban, mosquitoes bite you in the day. 231 00:18:14,820 --> 00:18:19,950 And the, the challenge that we really have here is that, for things like malaria, right? 232 00:18:19,950 --> 00:18:32,490 If someone's going to a malarious area, if they're going to larger Subsaharan Africa, or very rural places to Southeast Asia or India, or what have you, uh, Latin America, um, we have prophylaxis, right? 233 00:18:32,490 --> 00:18:40,620 We have chemoprophylaxis, I can put someone on atovaquone-proguanil or doxycycline, or in kind of select circumstances nowadays, mefloquine. 234 00:18:41,610 --> 00:18:46,500 You know, and that's very effective in combination with things like insect precautions and the like. 235 00:18:47,070 --> 00:18:49,720 For dengue, what we have is don't get bitten. 236 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:54,015 You know, it's basically our options for prophylaxis are don't get bitten. 237 00:18:54,255 --> 00:19:03,945 And that means insect cautions, that means DEET, you know, somewhere in the 30 to 40%, you know, concentrations, picaridin is also a reasonable option you have. 238 00:19:04,245 --> 00:19:09,855 But that's pretty, you know, people get a little how shall I phrase this lackadaisical about that, right? 239 00:19:09,855 --> 00:19:21,765 Like I'm pretty good when I go to, when I traveled to Peru, um, about using insect repellent when I'm walking around in the Peruvian Amazon and cities in the Peruvian Amazon. 240 00:19:22,155 --> 00:19:25,575 But, um, but I'm not perfect at it. 241 00:19:25,635 --> 00:19:28,245 I am probably just lucky on some level. 242 00:19:28,245 --> 00:19:28,515 Right. 243 00:19:28,965 --> 00:19:35,115 And it would be great if we had a widespread, highly effective dengue vaccine, but we don't like we don't right now. 244 00:19:35,145 --> 00:19:38,475 Now we do have Dengvaxia, which is an advance in public health. 245 00:19:38,475 --> 00:19:43,515 And Dengvaxia is a tetravalent, uh, dengue vaccine. 246 00:19:43,575 --> 00:19:46,935 Uh it's chimeric vaccine and is protective. 247 00:19:46,935 --> 00:19:49,335 It does reduce the risk of dengue acquisition. 248 00:19:49,335 --> 00:19:53,385 The problem is that the population who had benefits is very, very narrow, right. 249 00:19:53,385 --> 00:19:58,485 And it's basically kids and young adolescents who've had dengue before, right? 250 00:19:59,205 --> 00:20:05,475 So, you know, I'm, I'm an adult infectious disease doctor traveling and, you know, practicing in North Carolina. 251 00:20:05,685 --> 00:20:10,935 I don't have a lot of children and young adolescents with histories of prior dengue who I see. 252 00:20:11,295 --> 00:20:15,825 So Dengvaxia is not a thing that I'm likely to be able to implement in my own practice. 253 00:20:16,295 --> 00:20:24,565 James Wilson: I was going to ask about this later, but since we're here, uh, with Dengvaxia, it's mostly for those living in regions is what we're saying. 254 00:20:24,565 --> 00:20:25,285 And so that. 255 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:31,590 That is, that is really not the fever in the returning traveler quote unquote, that we would normally think of. 256 00:20:31,590 --> 00:20:35,850 And so these are usually put in to a packed and tropical and subtropical regions. 257 00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:46,530 Um, and it seems the Philippines is the only one that has that mandated Dengvaxia several years ago, uh, to be used as my understanding prior, just prior to the WHO 258 00:20:47,125 --> 00:20:47,395 Ryan Maves: Yeah. 259 00:20:47,395 --> 00:20:50,785 As a standard recommendation, it's relatively a few countries use it standardly. 260 00:20:50,785 --> 00:20:51,815 It is FDA approved. 261 00:20:51,815 --> 00:21:00,085 It, it is theoretically available in the U S but it's not a thing that we can offer to travelers as routinely as pre-exposure pre-travel preparation. 262 00:21:00,165 --> 00:21:04,365 So, you know, other flaviviruses can mimic Zika is very closely related. 263 00:21:04,455 --> 00:21:09,145 Um, Zika tends to cause relatively milder illness, uh, than dengue in the whole. 264 00:21:09,165 --> 00:21:22,830 But the thing that obviously is concerning about Zika is this sort of unique tropism for both sexual spread / sexual transmission and for its effects on neonates or not neonates, I'm sorry, fetuses and the effects on neurological development. 265 00:21:23,130 --> 00:21:29,640 Otherwise like if I had to pick between getting like dengue or Zika, I would totally pick Zika, right? 266 00:21:29,670 --> 00:21:32,700 Because it is generally a milder disease, right? 267 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:33,510 Generally milder disease. 268 00:21:34,330 --> 00:21:37,560 Chikungunya, not a flavivirus, unlike the other two. 269 00:21:37,810 --> 00:21:43,060 Chikungunya tends to have more arthralgias, it tends to have less of the kind of severe manifestations. 270 00:21:43,150 --> 00:21:53,590 But arthralgias can last a very, very, very long time and they can be very crippling and they actually can clinically and sometimes even biochemically mimic rheumatoid arthritis. 271 00:21:53,740 --> 00:22:22,260 And there's some great series done by, uh, uh, uh, James and I we're in the we're in the military together, way back when, um, done by the French military in Pacific island, uh, the French, uh, French possessions in French Polynesia and the like, um, On the use of methotrexate to treat post chikungunya arthritis and it's reasonably effective, but it's very much like how we would treat, um, RA and probably has some overlaps in its pathogenesis. 272 00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:27,030 Yellow fever is a much more severe disease, but again does not occur here. 273 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:30,240 Again, another flavivirus, where the word flavivirus comes from. 274 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,110 Flavi means yellow. 275 00:22:32,070 --> 00:22:49,160 Um, there is of course a highly effective vaccine and the history of yellow fever and yellow fever vaccination is, you know, there are, there are books written about that, and I won't waste much time other to say, this guy doesn't have yellow fever and then lepto[spirosis], which is bacterial, but can clinically overlap a lot. 276 00:22:49,250 --> 00:22:50,390 And for disease. 277 00:22:50,390 --> 00:22:54,440 This mild, you know, you could make a case for just trying doxycycline empirically in him. 278 00:22:55,520 --> 00:23:00,320 So then the challenge comes, and this is especially in this kind of clinical setting. 279 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:01,670 Like how do you diagnose it? 280 00:23:01,730 --> 00:23:02,030 Right? 281 00:23:02,210 --> 00:23:07,960 Because on some level mild dengue - it's not that big a deal. 282 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:08,470 Right. 283 00:23:08,530 --> 00:23:11,980 And so the reasons we would want to diagnose it is (a) to give it a name, right. 284 00:23:11,980 --> 00:23:12,820 Because that can be helpful. 285 00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:15,700 And because there is a residual risk of severe disease. 286 00:23:16,270 --> 00:23:21,160 And so do at least want to do some sort of risk stratification for this, uh, for this gentleman. 287 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,060 And I guess one question I it's worth asking is where was he born? 288 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:26,830 Was he born in North America? 289 00:23:26,830 --> 00:23:30,430 Was he born in the continental US or was he born overseas? 290 00:23:30,925 --> 00:23:33,025 James Wilson: Midwest, so Chicago land. 291 00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:36,490 Ryan Maves: So, so relatively low rates of dengue in Chicago. 292 00:23:36,490 --> 00:23:37,570 So that is reassuring, 293 00:23:37,630 --> 00:23:37,930 right? 294 00:23:38,410 --> 00:23:38,710 Yeah. 295 00:23:38,860 --> 00:23:41,050 Cause I mean, I'll just anecdotally, I'll tell you that. 296 00:23:41,130 --> 00:24:00,590 One of my first consults as a new ID fellow, um, was a young man, 19 years old, uh, who grew up in San Diego, but was born and spent his first several years of life in the Western Pacific and traveled back to visit family, uh, you know, visit his grandparents, his aunts and uncles, and comes back with dengue hemorrhagic fever. 297 00:24:01,190 --> 00:24:08,060 Um, and so it is at least somewhat worth knowing whether or not there is some history of some prior exposure that could play a role. 298 00:24:08,330 --> 00:24:12,560 Not that that's perfectly predictive, but you know, we got to risk stratify these people somehow. 299 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:14,330 All right. 300 00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:14,900 All right. 301 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:22,340 So then we get to, how are we going to diagnose it and, and, and what are kind of physical examination strategies and laboratory strategy. 302 00:24:22,350 --> 00:24:23,840 So we have, we talked about CBCs. 303 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,290 We talked about chemistry panels, blood cultures, just to be paranoid. 304 00:24:27,290 --> 00:24:28,640 And I'm an ID doctor. 305 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:34,400 And, you know, the indication for blood cultures is like fever and having blood. 306 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:59,230 So where, uh, where in, in my old place in San Diego, when, when James was, earlier in training, the residents had a meme of me going around the ICU, uh, which was me scowling in a corner and it said, indications for inpatient hIV testing, presence of blood and or genitalium. 307 00:25:01,630 --> 00:25:04,210 So, you know, blood cultures, it's kind of like 308 00:25:04,415 --> 00:25:05,945 James Wilson: this may or may not be absolutely 309 00:25:06,190 --> 00:25:07,210 Ryan Maves: yeah, yeah. 310 00:25:08,170 --> 00:25:09,040 So dengue? 311 00:25:10,060 --> 00:25:16,800 Um, so with all that going around, um, how could we actually diagnose dengue? 312 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,210 There's a bunch of ways we could do it. 313 00:25:18,260 --> 00:25:21,350 There are some interesting physical exam findings that we could pursue. 314 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:31,190 Uh, the tourniquet test is a thing you'll find in textbooks a bit where you, you know, you take a blood pressure cuff, you inflate it to, you know, halfway between systolic and diastolic. 315 00:25:31,190 --> 00:25:33,050 You leave it on there for a few minutes, then measure. 316 00:25:33,755 --> 00:25:38,975 You look for petechiae in a, you know, it's generally a two and a half centimeter by two and a half centimeter square. 317 00:25:38,975 --> 00:25:39,755 You count them. 318 00:25:39,755 --> 00:25:44,825 And that can be predictive of capillary fragility, which can be predictive in some cases of dengue. 319 00:25:45,245 --> 00:25:48,425 It is a physical exam fun fact. 320 00:25:48,455 --> 00:25:52,955 I don't think that it necessarily contributes much to the diagnosis or the management of the case. 321 00:25:52,955 --> 00:25:55,415 That is neither sensitive nor specific finding for dengue. 322 00:25:55,835 --> 00:25:56,795 If you find it it's neat. 323 00:25:57,305 --> 00:26:00,515 If I had a fellow come up to me and say, Hey, I found this patient. 324 00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:02,315 I think they have dengue, I did this thing. 325 00:26:02,315 --> 00:26:03,065 It was positive. 326 00:26:03,065 --> 00:26:04,235 I would think, oh, that's neat. 327 00:26:04,595 --> 00:26:07,175 So, but not terribly helpful. 328 00:26:07,205 --> 00:26:16,985 We do want to look for signs of hemorrhage on exam, obviously that they have any mucosal bleeding, any petechiae, anything on their hard palate or soft palate, uh, anything on their conjunctiva. 329 00:26:17,015 --> 00:26:21,325 James, you mentioned that they don't seem to have any obvious lesions in their eyes. 330 00:26:21,355 --> 00:26:22,015 That's helpful. 331 00:26:22,045 --> 00:26:30,820 Both for things that are also absent like jaundice or icterus um, And then we got to find some specific labs, right. 332 00:26:30,820 --> 00:26:34,660 And so probably the purists answer would be, this is kind of neat. 333 00:26:34,660 --> 00:26:44,110 This came out, started coming out when Zika first started being a thing is, gosh, I have to find out if this is actually like a trade name or generic name, but a Trioplex. 334 00:26:45,580 --> 00:26:49,840 But basically what it is is a three valent PCR for dengue, zika, chikungunya. 335 00:26:50,350 --> 00:26:51,490 CDC will run it. 336 00:26:51,490 --> 00:26:55,990 State and county public health departments can order it through channels, depending if they have it available. 337 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:02,590 Uh, in the Department of Defense, we can get these run at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research or at the Naval Medical Research Center. 338 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:19,240 Um, so if you are military affiliated and I'll say, this is one of those things that comes up a little more for people practicing the military, um, because we have a, as we say, highly mobile population, um, So what that can be run off of blood and urine. 339 00:27:19,990 --> 00:27:29,680 Urine is probably more sensitive, and it's probably positive longer because the period of viremia in acute dengue is relatively brief, but you can be shedding virus in your urine for a longer stretch of time. 340 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,000 And that's super helpful. 341 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,570 You can send off serologies for dengue, Zika, and chik[ungunya].. 342 00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:40,605 I will tell you that every positive Zika IgM, who I saw during the Zika epidemic, turned out to actually have dengue. 343 00:27:40,635 --> 00:27:47,415 So there's a lot of cross-reactivity on the flavivirus side of things, and I have never seen, or at least I should rephrase that. 344 00:27:47,415 --> 00:27:49,805 I have never diagnosed a case of chikungunya. 345 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:54,645 Um, so hard to say, I have colleagues, who've seen it a lot. 346 00:27:55,545 --> 00:28:00,525 Uh, and then dengue, you know, you can, there are a number of commercial ELISA based assays. 347 00:28:01,065 --> 00:28:04,385 Um, again, a lot of cross-reactivity with other flaviviruses. 348 00:28:04,725 --> 00:28:12,755 So you have to take it with a little bit of a grain of salt, um, but helpful if positive, particularly if you get convalescent titers down the road for IgG. 349 00:28:13,265 --> 00:28:16,925 Uh, the kinetics of that, there is a little bit of a delay in when those start to kick in. 350 00:28:18,455 --> 00:28:20,405 And then lastly, there is actually a dipstick. 351 00:28:20,435 --> 00:28:37,415 And I think those of us who, you know, ordered the, the rapid COVID tests that you can get mailed to you or purchased in the store, so the same manufacturer actually makes a dengue dipstick for the, uh, NS1 antigen, the non-structural protein one. 352 00:28:37,415 --> 00:28:42,765 And so all flaviviruses have these non-structural proteins -- NS1, NS3, NS5. 353 00:28:42,785 --> 00:28:58,175 You know, if you've taken care of Hep C, you know, hepatitis C is a flavivirus, basically, and it has a lot of the Hep C drugs target NS3 or NS5, involved in Hep C replication. 354 00:28:59,075 --> 00:29:01,485 Well, there's a lot of the same things present on dengue, 355 00:29:01,505 --> 00:29:11,555 so NS1 one of those, and that can be detected in serum with a rapid test, very specific, not quite as sensitive as you like, but if it's positive, it's positive. 356 00:29:12,035 --> 00:29:17,915 That is FDA approved in the U S but I gotta say , not a lot of urgent cares have those stocked. 357 00:29:19,545 --> 00:29:20,025 Sara Dong: Yeah. 358 00:29:20,055 --> 00:29:23,385 So I am just going to pause us here for a moment. 359 00:29:23,685 --> 00:29:28,815 Uh, to focus on the lab testing because I think there's so much great information here. 360 00:29:29,235 --> 00:29:32,625 So you've mentioned how we can establish diagnosis directly. 361 00:29:32,835 --> 00:29:47,055 So by detecting viral components in the serums, this could be the serum non-structural protein or that NS1 antigen testing, and we have PCR, both of which should be detectable in that first week of illness. 362 00:29:47,655 --> 00:29:57,915 And then for serology, we can detect dengue IgM via ELISA, which would be positive somewhere around, you know, four to six days after onset of illness. 363 00:29:58,305 --> 00:30:01,545 And importantly can stick around for a long time, longer than what we 364 00:30:02,085 --> 00:30:04,095 often expect with IgM, but. 365 00:30:04,635 --> 00:30:07,905 Uh, has the difficulty of lots of cross-reactivity. 366 00:30:09,285 --> 00:30:13,305 We certainly could confirm diagnosis with paired acute and convalescent results. 367 00:30:13,725 --> 00:30:25,065 Uh, but one thing I was wondering if you could mention was how we use or can use plaque reduction neutralization assays, uh, which sometimes come up for arboviruses like dengue.. 368 00:30:25,248 --> 00:30:30,128 Ryan Maves: Serologic testing, there is a thing called a PRNT which is a plaque reduction neutralization test. 369 00:30:31,448 --> 00:30:45,218 It's kind of a confirmatory test, but it's also, it's a way around those flavirvirus cross reactions we talked about right now, like Zika and yellow fever and dengue gay, and sometimes Hep C will have cross-reactive antibodies. 370 00:30:45,788 --> 00:30:48,038 But, um, on ELISA I should say. 371 00:30:48,038 --> 00:30:51,788 So a PRNT is like a functional study if you will, for antibody. 372 00:30:51,798 --> 00:30:55,698 So you take well plates that are coated with usually Vero cells. 373 00:30:56,418 --> 00:31:09,378 And these are then inoculated with both a certain amount of different virus, so dengue 1, dengue 2, dengue 3, dengue 4, as well as a patient's serum at varying dilutions. 374 00:31:09,408 --> 00:31:11,778 And what you're looking for is a viral cytopathic effect. 375 00:31:11,778 --> 00:31:27,548 And what that basically is is you look at the sheet of cells that are usually stained to blue, and you'll look for a little holes where they've seen where the virus is causing cell lysis, and then you count at what dilution of serum, you see a 50% reduction in the amount of cell lysis on those plates. 376 00:31:27,548 --> 00:31:29,188 So you just count, right? 377 00:31:29,198 --> 00:31:32,708 You're just taking a little card and you count how many of those holes are. 378 00:31:32,918 --> 00:31:41,378 And that is relatively specific for telling you which serotype, which type of dengue is responsible for that. 379 00:31:41,378 --> 00:31:48,308 So, because there's gonna be some cross-reaction between antibodies against dengue 2 having some residual activity against dengue 1, for example. 380 00:31:48,998 --> 00:32:03,468 But if you, if you do run a PRN T on it, you can say, Hey, listen, the, uh, the titer causing a PRNT reduction of 50%, for dengue three is much higher than the titers for one, two and four. 381 00:32:03,828 --> 00:32:07,668 Well, it gives you a pretty good idea that that person is infected with dengue three. 382 00:32:08,118 --> 00:32:10,628 Now that is mostly of epidemiological interest, 383 00:32:10,938 --> 00:32:11,238 right? 384 00:32:11,238 --> 00:32:16,128 That's not necessarily a thing that affects our management of a patient at the bedside, but it is kind of neat. 385 00:32:16,548 --> 00:32:17,748 It is a cool test to run. 386 00:32:17,778 --> 00:32:24,528 If you're an institution that can run them or sometimes CDC or other agencies will run those for epidemiologic tracking purposes. 387 00:32:25,008 --> 00:32:25,788 That's kind of cool. 388 00:32:26,118 --> 00:32:29,448 It doesn't affect much of what we do at the bedside with a given patient though. 389 00:32:30,183 --> 00:32:40,693 So thinking about other things that would suggest and go beyond, obviously having some sort of micro biologic or serologic diagnosis, pancytopenia is going to be, is fairly distinctive for dengue. 390 00:32:40,913 --> 00:32:53,013 Obviously that's not the most specific sign in the world, but someone's a little bit leukopenia and it's not you know, a white count of 0.4 and a hemoglobin of five and 22 platelets or anything like that. 391 00:32:53,403 --> 00:33:02,403 But having relative leukopenia, relative lymphopenia, moderate anemia, and low platelets is going to be very predictive. 392 00:33:02,673 --> 00:33:22,243 And it was kind of interesting when there are some studies that try to tease out like what syndromes are more likely both laboratory and clinical to be dengue compared with other kind of adjacent infections, you know, an AST greater than 60, white count less than 5,000, and absolute neutrophil count less than 3000. 393 00:33:22,483 --> 00:33:28,183 This has at least some degree of predictive value in a patient with a compatible travel history and a compatible syndrome. 394 00:33:28,183 --> 00:33:29,143 And so that can be helpful. 395 00:33:29,143 --> 00:33:32,743 Now, granted, that's also kind of true of like rickettsia. 396 00:33:33,043 --> 00:33:38,353 So we do have to be a little bit modest in that that, you know, I don't, I've never known for sure. 397 00:33:38,353 --> 00:33:47,803 If the, like the, the concept of the doxycyclin deficiency disease is universal in, in, uh, in ID, but it looks very much like that. 398 00:33:47,803 --> 00:33:58,033 So again, we have to be at least having an element of modesty about that, that thing can look like dengue, but could potentially be something with an overlapping laboratory scenario. 399 00:33:58,573 --> 00:34:03,613 Um, you know, if you're comparing it to like chik[ungunya] for example, the chikungunya, you know, there's going to be less rash. 400 00:34:03,643 --> 00:34:04,903 There's going to be more arthralgia. 401 00:34:05,173 --> 00:34:10,813 There's going to be more, uh, conjunctivitis often in patients with chikungunya, but that is not carved in stone. 402 00:34:10,813 --> 00:34:18,763 And often the, you know, dengue's old nickname is breakbone fever, distinguishing severe myalgia from severe arthralgia is perhaps not as easy as it sounds. 403 00:34:21,428 --> 00:34:30,538 James Wilson: I would ask since we're talking about the diagnosis, um, They changed the terminology and we saying dengue and then we may discuss hemorrhagic fever 404 00:34:31,368 --> 00:34:31,978 shock syndrome. 405 00:34:31,978 --> 00:34:38,758 But that was changed in 2009, um, to, you know, dengue, dengue with warning signs and, you know, 406 00:34:39,878 --> 00:34:47,098 severe dengue I think in common lingo, at least, uh, in the hospitals I've worked at are in an American, you know, conferences or whatever. 407 00:34:47,098 --> 00:34:50,128 I still feel is thrown around or dengue hemorrhagic fever. 408 00:34:50,488 --> 00:34:53,308 Um, would you mind commenting on the change? 409 00:34:53,328 --> 00:34:54,168 Ryan Maves: No, not at all. 410 00:34:54,168 --> 00:34:59,448 So, you know, historically there was this division of dengue into kind of three flavors. 411 00:34:59,448 --> 00:35:06,468 If you will, sort of classic dengue, dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome, and they exist on a continuum of severity. 412 00:35:06,498 --> 00:35:13,158 Now, part of the problem is that dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome had fairly strict criteria. 413 00:35:13,158 --> 00:35:18,198 You had to meet these definitions to have, to qualify if you will, as having them. 414 00:35:18,498 --> 00:35:26,203 Well, it turns out the people could maybe not meet DHF criteria, but we're still clearly very sick and clearly were at risk for progression. 415 00:35:26,203 --> 00:35:39,823 And so that you know, WHO and other international groups have moved away from that definition to now to say, look at what we call dengue with warning signs and then dengue, you know, then severe dengue, right? 416 00:35:39,823 --> 00:35:44,713 And then within the spectrum of severe dengue , you can add shock, which really is just hypotension. 417 00:35:44,713 --> 00:36:00,058 And my, you know, my, my intensivist itself would say that hypotension and shock are not the same thing, but clearly they are related and clearly they overlap and clearly someone who presents with dengue and hypotension is at risk for more severe outcomes. 418 00:36:00,418 --> 00:36:00,688 Right? 419 00:36:00,688 --> 00:36:10,588 If you figure, if you figure that the mortality of dengue shock syndrome in a modern monitored hospital setting is probably about 0.1%. 420 00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:19,408 And that's just really with fluid resuscitation and close monitoring, uh, the risk of mortality of that group of patients is up to 20% in resource limited settings, right? 421 00:36:19,408 --> 00:36:21,088 So those are people who are definitely at risk of dying. 422 00:36:21,088 --> 00:36:26,668 And really the, the tragedy here is that that that group at risk are largely infants, right? 423 00:36:26,698 --> 00:36:28,828 Those are the ones who are at the greatest risk of passing. 424 00:36:28,828 --> 00:36:36,828 It is, you know, the, the graveyards of the world are not filling up with wealthy travelers from North America, dying of dengue shock syndrome. 425 00:36:36,908 --> 00:37:04,353 The burden of morbidity and mortality is overwhelmingly, although not exclusively on, on infants, on little kids in, uh, in endemic areas, So when we kind of look at like what those features that would kind of lead us to call someone's having, uh, having severe dengue, um, you know, the, the old definition included for like dengue hemorrhagic fever. 426 00:37:04,383 --> 00:37:14,433 The big thing was this plasma leakage, this idea you had capillary leakage, uh, that would often be associated with pleural and peritoneal effusions, and often hypovolemic shock. 427 00:37:14,733 --> 00:37:15,003 Right? 428 00:37:15,003 --> 00:37:16,233 So you'd just start leaking out. 429 00:37:16,233 --> 00:37:19,653 And because of that, you'd get hemoconcentration and relatively high hematocrit. 430 00:37:20,013 --> 00:37:34,068 These are the folks who have maybe petechiae, maybe have some, maybe a little GI bleeding, but they usually don't like bleed overtly, um These people also feel lousy for a very, very, very, very long time. 431 00:37:34,488 --> 00:37:43,368 You add on top of those hemorrhagic slash capillary leakage phenomena, the existence of hypotension, then you have dengue shock syndrome, right? 432 00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:46,098 So still a useful kind of concept. 433 00:37:46,128 --> 00:37:54,758 Capillary leakage, marker of severe dengue that can manifest is with hemorrhage, that can manifest with pleural effusions ascites et cetera. 434 00:37:54,848 --> 00:37:56,048 It can manifest with frank bleeding. 435 00:37:56,048 --> 00:38:02,678 It can manifest with shock, um, but it becomes impractical because of those definitions. 436 00:38:02,678 --> 00:38:13,058 So when you look at the new scoring systems, there's dengue with warning signs, and these are people who in, when we see these folks in North America, we should really very strongly admit. 437 00:38:13,868 --> 00:38:15,578 We would almost certainly admit the majority of them. 438 00:38:15,708 --> 00:38:21,188 These are people with abdominal pain, uh, certainly anything that resembles peritoneal signs. 439 00:38:21,218 --> 00:38:22,508 Those folks need to be admitted. 440 00:38:22,688 --> 00:38:25,643 People who have overt signs of plasma leakage. 441 00:38:25,703 --> 00:38:33,893 So again, effusions, for example, if you've got a chest film and you saw pleural effusions, that would be a marker for admission, overt mucosal bleeding. 442 00:38:34,643 --> 00:38:37,973 Obviously these are people we are very likely to admit regardless. 443 00:38:38,303 --> 00:38:55,973 A lethargy, inability to tolerate PO, severe vomiting, and then if you saw overt hemoconcentration, so you saw someone who was sick, maybe had some petechiae in their mouth, maybe had some pleural effusions, um, and then, you know, you get a hemoglobin on them and their hemoglobin is 17. 444 00:38:57,083 --> 00:38:59,753 Um, that would be a trigger for admission. 445 00:39:00,143 --> 00:39:09,983 Um, severe dengue then is going to be someone with frank plasma leakage, someone who's hypotensive, um, someone who has evidence of some other form of organ failure. 446 00:39:09,983 --> 00:39:13,553 Be it myocardial, be it severe delirium or encephalopathy. 447 00:39:14,013 --> 00:39:20,013 If someone did have overt signs of hepatitis, that's a person who you would need to admit because that person is a very high risk. 448 00:39:20,533 --> 00:39:27,023 . With all of this background, I think what we really need to sort out is what this gentleman's risk of severe disease is. 449 00:39:27,443 --> 00:39:29,003 The initial description sounds okay. 450 00:39:29,003 --> 00:39:31,253 But I think the laboratory may shed a little more light on that. 451 00:39:32,498 --> 00:39:32,798 James Wilson: Yeah. 452 00:39:32,828 --> 00:39:49,978 And so he went home with symptomatic treatment, um, and his lab work that I had ordered was a CBC, CMP, fourth gen HIV test, uh, you know, rapid flu, and an EBV swab, a Monospot, and um, you know, those results came back two days later. 453 00:39:49,978 --> 00:39:55,138 His CBC showed he had a white count of 3.1 with an ANC of 2,900. 454 00:39:55,678 --> 00:40:02,048 Uh, he had a hematocrit of 43% and his platelets were 170. 455 00:40:02,628 --> 00:40:13,748 His CMP, uh a little dehydrated is 148, for his sodium, 3.9 for his potassium, 111 chloride, 26 bicarb, 22 to 1.3 for BUN, Creatinine. 456 00:40:15,028 --> 00:40:22,048 for glucose with AST 65, ALT ALP at 111, total bilirubin 1.2 and an albumin at 2.8. 457 00:40:22,858 --> 00:40:24,028 I then had him come in. 458 00:40:24,028 --> 00:40:25,918 I saw him and he looked grand. 459 00:40:26,398 --> 00:40:31,158 Um, and so I repeated the labs another day later. 460 00:40:31,168 --> 00:40:36,888 So over the course of about a week and they all reverted to what his baseline was from his physical a year prior 461 00:40:36,933 --> 00:40:37,383 Ryan Maves: Excellent. 462 00:40:38,043 --> 00:40:38,373 Yeah. 463 00:40:38,373 --> 00:40:41,023 So it sounds like he had certainly some laboratory 464 00:40:41,573 --> 00:40:42,403 James Wilson: HIV EBV 465 00:40:43,073 --> 00:40:43,453 Ryan Maves: Excellent. 466 00:40:43,473 --> 00:40:48,573 So, you know, relative leukopenia that resolved spontaneously, platelets are normal. 467 00:40:48,693 --> 00:40:50,193 All of this is very reassuring. 468 00:40:50,193 --> 00:40:54,003 Small LFT abnormalities or transaminase abnormalities that are getting better. 469 00:40:54,093 --> 00:41:00,513 So, yeah, so it sounds like this gentlemen had, you know, a fairly common manifestation of what we presume is dengue. 470 00:41:00,993 --> 00:41:12,363 Um, based on the topic we're talking about today, uh, and is likely to have a very good outcome in our care for him would be purely symptomatic and supportive with a few provisos here and there. 471 00:41:14,063 --> 00:41:14,253 James Wilson: Yeah. 472 00:41:14,303 --> 00:41:20,933 I think it's important to note that the patient had defervesced more than 48 hours prior to presentation to the clinic. 473 00:41:21,027 --> 00:41:35,807 During that timeframe, when we have any patient that we're suspecting dengue fever, that two to five days post defervescence is when you were most concerned to look for dengue hemorrhagic fever, and, um, you severe sepsis. 474 00:41:36,047 --> 00:41:41,897 Um, and if they make it past that five to seven day window after the fact, then they're probably going to be in the clear. 475 00:41:42,477 --> 00:41:48,877 Ryan Maves: that is sort of the danger time when people at their maximum risk of decompensation or at least clinical worsening from severe dengue. 476 00:41:48,927 --> 00:41:50,997 So that's, that's a, that's a great point. 477 00:41:50,997 --> 00:41:55,617 And you know, and again, those, those windows of time, two to five days and so forth, right? 478 00:41:55,617 --> 00:41:57,477 That's those are not laws of nature. 479 00:41:57,477 --> 00:42:05,957 Those are not carved in stone, but you can definitely say that if someone is a good week or more out from their acute fever, that they're probably out of danger, right? 480 00:42:06,347 --> 00:42:11,207 It's also probably a good point to mention that the incubation period for dengue at most, a couple of weeks. 481 00:42:11,687 --> 00:42:20,297 And so a traveler who is returned from a dengue endemic region more than a couple of weeks ago, it is very unlikely that dengue is necessarily the cause of their acute illness. 482 00:42:20,297 --> 00:42:33,217 There are things with longer incubation periods, of course, typhoid, malaria, and many others, but dengue, it's a fairly typical virus in its incubation period for an acute viral infection is pretty focused, you know, maybe a couple of weeks. 483 00:42:33,792 --> 00:42:36,462 James Wilson: So I, I told him Tylenol and fluids. 484 00:42:36,462 --> 00:42:44,507 And if you couldn't tolerate PO, uh, to Um, and he was asking, he's like, I just kind of feel a little lousy. 485 00:42:44,927 --> 00:42:47,087 Um, you know, I took some Tylenol didn't help. 486 00:42:47,087 --> 00:42:52,457 Can I take Motrin or in the military, we call it a vitamin M uh, for some ibuprofen high dose. 487 00:42:52,457 --> 00:42:54,107 And I told him to change his socks. 488 00:42:54,137 --> 00:42:58,947 But the big thing was, is I told him not to take any NSAIDs. 489 00:42:59,087 --> 00:43:04,817 Um, is there, I remembered that briefly from training, but didn't couldn't remember why at the time. 490 00:43:04,922 --> 00:43:24,497 Ryan Maves: Yeah, I think the real concern with NSAIDs is we do worry about that maybe potentiating risk of bleeding and people who progressed to a more hemorrhagic type of picture and, um, I doubt very much there's any large trials of say ibuprofen versus acetaminophen in the management of mild dengue and probably a person who is totally fine. 491 00:43:24,497 --> 00:43:31,247 I suspect a lot of people are taking ibuprofen for, for undiagnosed dengue like behind our backs. 492 00:43:31,277 --> 00:43:42,697 But in general, the purest answer and the advice that we would give, uh, is to avoid NSAIDs and instead sticking primarily to acetaminophen for, um, for symptomatic relief. 493 00:43:43,267 --> 00:43:43,597 Right. 494 00:43:45,782 --> 00:43:51,752 And then, you know, trying to maintain, reasonable volume status, eat what you can eat, avoid dehydration. 495 00:43:51,902 --> 00:43:56,162 But again, these are things just for symptomatic control and his prognosis is probably pretty good. 496 00:43:56,162 --> 00:43:58,892 Although the fact that he feels lousy is very common, right? 497 00:43:59,342 --> 00:44:17,162 Uh, one of the, one of the less pleasant features of dengue is that recovery is often somewhat prolonged, uh, that people can have a relatively mild illness, but still feel blah for several weeks afterwards, this prolonged post dengue asthenia I guess we could call it. 498 00:44:19,192 --> 00:44:19,702 James Wilson: Perfect. 499 00:44:20,212 --> 00:44:30,127 Um, so that was the first part because he happened to repeat his q [every] six month trips to Thailand, which he had started four years prior. 500 00:44:30,577 --> 00:44:48,707 Uh, and he went back again in April, And so he came back and had been febrile for several days and his fever broke and he was still felt lousy, but he needed to come back to work as a pharmaceutical rep. 501 00:44:49,127 --> 00:44:52,337 He came back to work and just so happened to come into the clinic. 502 00:44:52,347 --> 00:44:53,607 He looked terrible. 503 00:44:54,087 --> 00:44:58,517 And so he told me that he had changed the trip that he had gone on a little bit. 504 00:44:58,517 --> 00:45:03,467 In this time he added Chiang Rai uh, to his trip, which is a little more rural. 505 00:45:03,777 --> 00:45:11,247 He'd gone to an elephant park and a tiger park, but he began having severe a headache for three days after returning. 506 00:45:11,307 --> 00:45:14,397 Uh, and he had marked retro-orbital pain on the right. 507 00:45:15,027 --> 00:45:21,357 Uh, but when he came in, he was afebrile at that time, but he just looked sunken. 508 00:45:21,837 --> 00:45:32,162 And so I took a look at him and had him sit down and he had a, what looked like a significant petechial rash on the, his right wrist. 509 00:45:32,162 --> 00:45:35,132 And I had him pull his sleeves up and it was on both sides. 510 00:45:35,942 --> 00:45:44,252 And so at that point we got blood pressures, and he was at best 100 over 60. 511 00:45:44,562 --> 00:45:47,472 we took it several times, which gave him the tourniquet sign. 512 00:45:47,542 --> 00:45:53,582 Uh he was tachy[cardic] in the one with mild diffuse abdominal tenderness, more so in the bilateral upper quadrants. 513 00:45:53,972 --> 00:45:58,212 Um, and he had been endorsing dark stools during the last week. 514 00:45:58,292 --> 00:46:02,882 And so advised him that he needed to go to the local ER, which happened across the street. 515 00:46:02,932 --> 00:46:13,312 So when he made it to the ER, he was still 90/50 [blood pressure], they bolus'd liters of normal saline, he, um, but he had tachycardia at that point in the 110s, uh, despite the fluids. 516 00:46:13,312 --> 00:46:19,032 The ER obtained urine culture, UA, blood cultures, they attempted to get a sputum culture. 517 00:46:20,082 --> 00:46:24,342 Is he had CBC, a CMP and a lactic acidosis, and these things were all cooking. 518 00:46:24,762 --> 00:46:30,732 Uh, when they page the ID attending, that was on call based on his travel history. 519 00:46:31,182 --> 00:46:36,762 So let's say that they, their question at that point was, do we get an LP given his headache? 520 00:46:37,212 --> 00:46:40,392 So that was the phone call that went to the infectious disease physician. 521 00:46:40,392 --> 00:46:43,122 And let's assume that that would be you in the setting, 522 00:46:43,482 --> 00:46:48,102 Ryan Maves: Yeah, well, I, so it's a bit of a pickle, right? 523 00:46:48,132 --> 00:46:58,602 Because in general, my answer to folks about, do I do an LP on a fever and a headache is that the time to do an LP is when you ask yourself, should I do an LP? 524 00:46:59,292 --> 00:46:59,652 Right. 525 00:47:00,072 --> 00:47:19,662 Um, now there are some features of him that makes me kind of drifts me, both kind of pro and con, one is that, you know, he's not probably the obvious risk group for meningococcal disease, but we at least need to acknowledge that someone with new and progressive petechiae and a fever and a headache that we need to, at least, you know, he doesn't live in congregate housing. 526 00:47:19,662 --> 00:47:34,892 He hasn't returned from an area like say that, uh, the meningococcal endemic regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, uh, where he has returned from the Hajj where we would expect a higher risk for meningococcal disease. 527 00:47:35,342 --> 00:47:46,052 Um, but you know, if you ask me, I mean, if his platelet count is acceptable and he's not anticoagulated and it is on your differential, then the answer is yes. 528 00:47:46,202 --> 00:47:46,652 Right. 529 00:47:46,952 --> 00:47:52,412 Um, now that being said his syndrome, and since we're on the topic, his syndrome, I think we know the answer to that. 530 00:47:52,652 --> 00:47:58,112 Um, but I, I'm certainly not going to be, uh, not going to be recorded on, uh, on Dr. 531 00:47:58,112 --> 00:48:02,232 Dong's famous podcast not not LP a man with fever and rapidly evolving 532 00:48:02,322 --> 00:48:05,132 Sara Dong: I'm glad that your response to that is the same as mine. 533 00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:10,922 If you ask the question, then it's going to be really hard to get an ID doc to say, no, you don't need that LP. 534 00:48:11,352 --> 00:48:13,212 Ryan Maves: Yeah, exactly, exactly. 535 00:48:13,242 --> 00:48:16,392 But that being said, we can take a look at some additional features. 536 00:48:16,392 --> 00:48:26,682 So the big concern for this gentleman obviously is that, you know, he's presenting with persistent hypertension, uh, not responding completely, although his MAP is probably greater than 65. 537 00:48:26,682 --> 00:48:27,012 Right. 538 00:48:27,042 --> 00:48:30,442 So what did his hemodynamics do after that second liter? 539 00:48:32,402 --> 00:48:34,142 James Wilson: They remained the same, essentially. 540 00:48:34,192 --> 00:48:34,582 Ryan Maves: Okay. 541 00:48:34,852 --> 00:48:35,272 Okay. 542 00:48:36,262 --> 00:48:56,362 So, you know, this gets us into one of these pickles where we're having to deal with, you know, what it sounds like we're thinking this is a severe dengue based on his, shall we say recurrent exposures, but still needing to acknowledge the fact that these cosmopolitan types of infections still exist, um, that he could still just be bacteremic.. 543 00:48:56,382 --> 00:49:06,022 He could still just be septic and that I would be, you know, deeply reluctant to not recommend blood cultures, empiric antibiotics, and so forth. 544 00:49:06,022 --> 00:49:11,242 Just remember that when we think about what are the modifiable risk factors for mortality in septic shock, right? 545 00:49:11,242 --> 00:49:15,322 It's time of hypotension until time of active antibiotics on board, right. 546 00:49:15,322 --> 00:49:18,202 In addition to hemodynamic correction and so forth. 547 00:49:18,232 --> 00:49:18,532 So. 548 00:49:19,732 --> 00:49:21,982 We will set that aside because that is not our topic. 549 00:49:22,162 --> 00:49:24,022 Let us assume that has been addressed. 550 00:49:24,442 --> 00:49:32,872 Um, not always a great assumption to have, and I know that we accidentally randomized people to the natural history arm of the septic shock trial on occasion. 551 00:49:33,202 --> 00:49:37,402 So let's, let's not do that, but having addressed 552 00:49:37,582 --> 00:49:44,242 James Wilson: did zosyn or pip-tazo and Vancomyocin when he came in hypotensive and tachycardic 553 00:49:44,812 --> 00:49:45,622 with fevers, 554 00:49:45,682 --> 00:49:45,982 Ryan Maves: know, 555 00:49:46,522 --> 00:49:47,062 James Wilson: a history of 556 00:49:47,272 --> 00:49:50,782 Ryan Maves: you know, and of course this is a, this is a podcast for infectious disease doctors. 557 00:49:50,782 --> 00:50:01,972 And I know we all kind of joke about that as the decerebrate choice, the antibiotic selection, um, that being said, that's probably not the most unreasonable thing, although if you're thinking fever and headache, that probably something that penetrates the CNS better than pip-tazo 558 00:50:02,032 --> 00:50:04,252 so it would be a good idea moving on. 559 00:50:04,672 --> 00:50:10,222 So in terms of diagnostics, what do we have any laboratory studies to help guide our thinking about this gentlemen? 560 00:50:10,855 --> 00:50:28,295 James Wilson: So, his labs, that ended up coming back about an hour later, uh, his white count was two, his ANC was 1300 and his hemoglobin was 16, and his platelets was, 65 at that point. 561 00:50:29,135 --> 00:50:40,215 Um, and then for his CMP, he had a AST of a 125 and then an ALT of 200 562 00:50:40,995 --> 00:50:41,955 at that point. 563 00:50:42,285 --> 00:50:44,445 And his total bilirubin was a 2.1. 564 00:50:45,195 --> 00:50:46,335 So at that point, so. 565 00:50:46,610 --> 00:50:57,890 Ryan Maves: You know of those labs, the most reassuring thing there is actually, even though there's know significant derangements all up and down is that hemoconcentration right, because that's a fairly distinctive feature. 566 00:50:57,890 --> 00:51:09,230 Now, if, if we were seeing that in a person with a different travel .History and without this prior history of presumptive, dengue, of course, let's say this person had come back from west Africa and had pharyngitis along with a lot of the same features. 567 00:51:09,530 --> 00:51:11,100 Then we would be worried about lassa. 568 00:51:11,210 --> 00:51:17,060 We could be worried about other causes of viral hemorrhagic fever, um, more common in other parts of the world. 569 00:51:17,060 --> 00:51:22,490 So it, although hemoconcentration in this particular setting is somewhat reassuring. 570 00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:23,390 In other settings. 571 00:51:23,390 --> 00:51:30,500 It is very unreassuring and just be, we need to all be remind ourselves that hemoconcentration is not normal, right? 572 00:51:30,500 --> 00:51:35,390 And that is a potential marker of capillary leakage, which is a hallmark of viral hemorrhagic fevers. 573 00:51:36,230 --> 00:51:37,130 In this gentleman's case. 574 00:51:38,785 --> 00:51:45,625 Um, you know, I think that sending off diagnostic tests again for dengue and for all the other stuff we did last time, right. 575 00:51:45,625 --> 00:52:05,965 We still need, you know, bad luck can happen multiple times just because he, you know, didn't get acute HIV, just because he didn't get acute hepatitis B last time, doesn't mean he can't get it this time, especially if, you know, if his sexual exposures and other exposures are relatively comparable. 576 00:52:06,295 --> 00:52:09,475 And again, he's a little more rural area, you know? 577 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:17,390 Uh, high hematocrit is not a feature of malaria typically, but I, again, think we need to go down that pathway, especially given his greater severity of illness. 578 00:52:17,510 --> 00:52:23,810 And I suppose, I think again, thinking as a, as an intensivist, more than an ID doctor right now, but still both are true. 579 00:52:24,170 --> 00:52:26,780 What is our risk tolerance in this gentleman? 580 00:52:26,780 --> 00:52:29,330 What is our tolerance for being wrong? 581 00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:39,650 A hemodynamically stable patient who walks in under his or her own power sits down to clinic is able to eat, is able to drink, has good follow-up, you have a different margin for error for that patient. 582 00:52:39,890 --> 00:52:43,070 Maybe not for malaria, but for other things you do, right? 583 00:52:43,070 --> 00:52:48,470 Like that person is unlikely to have significantly adverse outcome if you guess wrong the first time. 584 00:52:49,010 --> 00:52:53,720 So it comes in hypotensive, tachycardic, febrile, looks bad, unable to keep food down. 585 00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:56,390 That person, your margin for error is extremely limited. 586 00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,240 And so we need to make sure we're getting it right the first time. 587 00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:03,800 So although we will discuss features of severe flavivirus infections. 588 00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:16,430 We also need to acknowledge the remainder of this differential diagnosis, which as aforementioned, probably includes a lumbar puncture along with blood culture and it's potentially with empiric antibacterial drugs and so forth. 589 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:24,890 So, um, is there any way we can get any kind of specific diagnostics for dengue on him? 590 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:25,700 What's available? 591 00:53:30,155 --> 00:53:30,485 James Wilson: Okay. 592 00:53:30,535 --> 00:53:34,045 This was a community hospital, um, 10 bed, ICU type place. 593 00:53:34,045 --> 00:53:38,985 And so they didn't have much, they sent serologies and they sent the PCR, but they're all send out tests. 594 00:53:39,010 --> 00:53:39,310 Ryan Maves: Okay. 595 00:53:39,310 --> 00:53:39,790 That's fine. 596 00:53:39,820 --> 00:53:47,800 Well, there's an, and, and there is nowhere, I don't know, maybe your, for working at Emory and you're across the street from CDC, you can get dengue turnaround 597 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:49,360 Sara Dong: yeah, it's a send-off for everyone. 598 00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:49,690 I feel 599 00:53:49,810 --> 00:53:50,260 Ryan Maves: Yeah. 600 00:53:50,290 --> 00:53:51,280 I mean, exactly. 601 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:57,430 If you can like walk across the street, then maybe your turnaround is very fast, but I think in the overwhelming majority of situations, it's going to be a send-out. 602 00:53:57,670 --> 00:53:58,000 Right. 603 00:53:58,230 --> 00:53:59,550 But at least we can send it off. 604 00:53:59,550 --> 00:54:00,960 We can get the ball rolling on it. 605 00:54:01,380 --> 00:54:09,070 Um, you know, then the thing is like, didn't he just have dengue or aren't we pretty sure he just had dengue? 606 00:54:09,130 --> 00:54:10,740 So how is this happening now? 607 00:54:11,460 --> 00:54:17,820 And so, you know, I, I remember, uh, when I was a junior fellow, I was told, you know, it's not the first time you get dengue that kills you. 608 00:54:17,820 --> 00:54:18,990 It's the second time right. 609 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:24,690 Now, that is an oversimplification, but the problem goes back to those four serotypes. 610 00:54:25,390 --> 00:54:40,990 The simplified version is that if you are infected with, say dengue three, you likely have at least nearly lifelong sterile immunity to dengue three, your immunity to den gues one, two, and four though is relatively short-lived. 611 00:54:40,990 --> 00:54:42,720 You may have some cross-reactive immunity. 612 00:54:43,545 --> 00:54:43,695 Yeah. 613 00:54:43,725 --> 00:54:44,685 A couple of years or so. 614 00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:45,975 Right. 615 00:54:46,365 --> 00:54:51,075 But, um, but that immunity will wane. 616 00:54:51,345 --> 00:55:13,065 And one of the things that happens is that we see this waning cross-reactivity that can actually potentiate increased severity infection that this, uh, this process called antibody dependent enhancement where, um, where mononuclear cells, dendritic cells, and like will take up dengue more efficiently with a partially incompletely, uh, neutralizing antibody. 617 00:55:13,545 --> 00:55:13,845 Right? 618 00:55:13,845 --> 00:55:18,285 And so this can lead to increase viraemia and more rapid viral replication and more severe disease. 619 00:55:18,705 --> 00:55:22,395 Now, this is an incomplete explanation of why this happens, right? 620 00:55:22,395 --> 00:55:23,835 This is an incomplete explanation. 621 00:55:23,865 --> 00:55:25,935 There's probably some host factors involved. 622 00:55:26,475 --> 00:55:33,135 Um, there may be, there may be some polymorphisms in mediators of innate immunity 623 00:55:33,615 --> 00:55:34,455 that's involved. 624 00:55:34,485 --> 00:55:46,020 There is a sort of interesting thing for, you know, for ID doctors, of course, The CCR five co-receptor, uh, which we think of as a therapeutic target for HIV. 625 00:55:46,050 --> 00:55:47,280 Not that I don't know. 626 00:55:47,310 --> 00:56:01,710 I mean, I haven't given maraviroc for years, but it is a therapeutic target for HIV and the CCR five Delta 32 mutation, which when present, when you have two copies of that, you are relatively resistant and, or immune to HIV. 627 00:56:01,710 --> 00:56:11,070 And I've just read in the paper that we had recently, a third person cured of HIV by stem cell transplant with CCR5 delta 32 homozygous donor. 628 00:56:11,850 --> 00:56:16,560 Um, well that mutation has affects in nature too. 629 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:23,490 And one of the effects of that mutation is people who have it probably get more severe flavivirus disease, uh, more severe flavivirus infections. 630 00:56:23,940 --> 00:56:31,920 So, um, now this doesn't explain off the top of your head, like getting a second flavivirus infection. 631 00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:49,035 I said earlier that severe dengue is more likely in infants well, this explains that in part, because maternal antibodies can mediate, cross reacting, um, you know, incompletely cross-reactive antibody responses to primary dengue infections in neonates. 632 00:56:49,065 --> 00:56:49,365 Right? 633 00:56:49,365 --> 00:57:01,665 So a two month old who gets infected with dengue one and they also have some amount of dengue three antibody from the mother, um, could get severe dengue as result of that. 634 00:57:02,025 --> 00:57:06,705 Now, severe dengue does not happen in most hetero typic dengue infections. 635 00:57:07,185 --> 00:57:08,955 Uh, it happens only a minority of cases. 636 00:57:08,955 --> 00:57:13,785 It is not a complete and nor does it explain every case of severe dengue, right? 637 00:57:13,785 --> 00:57:17,925 There are these other host factors and things that play a role, but it is an interesting kind of model. 638 00:57:17,925 --> 00:57:25,125 And I will say, cause this is 2022 in recording this, that there are some coronaviruses that exhibit antibody dependent enhancement. 639 00:57:25,485 --> 00:57:36,105 Um, actually the, uh, the feline infectious peritonitis virus, um, which is a Corona virus, uh, has, antibody dependent enhancement as part of its pathogenesis. 640 00:57:36,345 --> 00:57:39,585 I mentioned that because my cat is sitting in my lap and I'm thinking about it right now. 641 00:57:45,765 --> 00:57:45,945 Okay. 642 00:57:46,065 --> 00:57:47,295 And she is very comfortable. 643 00:57:47,295 --> 00:57:53,115 And to the best of my ability to tell does not have feline, uh, peritonitis virus infections. 644 00:57:56,335 --> 00:58:00,025 Although for reasons I won't get into you, I do have to give her a cyclosporine for later on. 645 00:58:00,685 --> 00:58:01,285 Um, 646 00:58:01,725 --> 00:58:02,235 James Wilson: Oh man. 647 00:58:02,335 --> 00:58:02,695 Ryan Maves: yeah. 648 00:58:02,725 --> 00:58:02,995 Yeah. 649 00:58:03,265 --> 00:58:05,245 My cats, my cats, liver transplant. 650 00:58:05,485 --> 00:58:17,575 No, no, it's not that, uh, it's not that, um, anyway, so this immunopotentiation though, this is a thing, and it seems like in this patient, that explains what happened to him, right? 651 00:58:17,575 --> 00:58:21,445 That seems like that is probably the thing that drove his severity of disease. 652 00:58:22,075 --> 00:58:34,495 Um, and certainly in returning traveler to explain a bit, uh, you know, Thailand has multiple circulating serotypes of dengue and it's not implausible, especially cause he went to a new place, right? 653 00:58:34,735 --> 00:58:41,455 Because relatively recent, you know, different geographic regions, their dengue serotypes will shift kind of gradually over time. 654 00:58:41,815 --> 00:58:45,415 But he went to a new place, had the opportunity for a new exposure. 655 00:58:45,715 --> 00:58:48,445 And I think that explains kind of his deal. 656 00:58:48,505 --> 00:58:48,865 Right? 657 00:58:49,615 --> 00:58:51,385 So then we got to figure out is what we're going to do for it. 658 00:58:53,145 --> 00:58:55,565 And our choices are kind of limited. 659 00:58:55,875 --> 00:59:00,645 James Wilson: That was going to be my next step from, from two points, right? 660 00:59:00,645 --> 00:59:15,615 The primary team, uh, likely the recommendation in the setting of tachycardia and hypotension and the old nomenclature of severe sepsis versus septic shock is, you know, but he has not responded exactly to the fluids. 661 00:59:15,615 --> 00:59:17,145 And so it sounds like he'd be going to the ICU. 662 00:59:17,145 --> 00:59:20,535 And so then it's a tag team with the ICU and the idea's already on board. 663 00:59:20,865 --> 00:59:32,045 From the two perspectives, the ID perspective, um, there are some studies on TNF alpha inhibition, and there are some studies on antiviral medications that have been tried. 664 00:59:32,315 --> 00:59:43,295 In this patient who was switched by the ID physician to essentially bacterial meningitis, uh, coverage, ceftriaxone, vancomycin, and ampicillin even despite his age, he still did the amp because of the travel. 665 00:59:43,655 --> 00:59:50,825 Um, and then he did acyclovir of your, at that point, uh, as well, just because, you know, because, 666 00:59:50,885 --> 00:59:53,165 and, uh, exactly. 667 00:59:53,525 --> 00:59:58,985 Uh, and so those things were continued and Flagyl was added for whatever reason. 668 00:59:58,985 --> 01:00:07,265 And, and, uh, so the, those two perspectives though, you know, the TNF alpha, we are not actually doing, those are mostly animal studies. 669 01:00:07,485 --> 01:00:16,185 Um, and so there's no movement to use infliximab on everyone that comes in, uh, but the antiviral, um, medications, it seems that since. 670 01:00:18,290 --> 01:00:20,130 Certainly in this patient may be up front. 671 01:00:20,130 --> 01:00:30,000 We don't have enough data to use an HCV targeting med because it is a similar flavivirus, but is there any other consideration for something targeting 672 01:00:30,660 --> 01:00:30,930 in these 673 01:00:31,185 --> 01:00:39,025 Ryan Maves: I mean, you hit the, the key thing, the key features are hemodynamic support, and that is going to be largely isotonic crystalloid resuscitation, right? 674 01:00:39,025 --> 01:00:51,355 Like not half normal, not, you know, D5-Water it's going to be principally volume, isotonic crystalloids normal saline or LR, depending on your, your local preferences. 675 01:00:51,685 --> 01:00:56,485 Given the volumes of fluid, I'd probably personally use LR, but I don't have a ton of data to back that up. 676 01:00:57,085 --> 01:01:07,135 Um, so the big question is in which volume, which mode of volume resuscitation you use are gonna come down to like, do we use colloid or crystalloid right. 677 01:01:07,135 --> 01:01:11,515 The only colloid in widespread clinical use and really the best one to use would be albumin. 678 01:01:12,085 --> 01:01:14,005 Could you use albumin with a clear conscience? 679 01:01:14,125 --> 01:01:14,425 Yeah. 680 01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:17,680 Um, it's more expensive. 681 01:01:17,710 --> 01:01:40,690 There's this sort of theoretical idea of, um, albumin containing fluids, restoring capillary integrity, essentially by kind of, uh, plugging the holes in the, uh, the endothelial glycocalyx, it's the same word as we think of for bacterial glycocalyx when you're talking about, um, you know, adherence to prosthetic devices and prosthetic infections, but it's a completely different concept. 682 01:01:40,690 --> 01:02:01,390 You can think of that as sort of the thing that makes, uh, the endothelial glycocalyx has a layer of, you know, heparin, opioids and glycosaminoglycans, and sort of the thing that makes Starling forces work keeps intravascular intravascular keeps extra vascular, extra vascular, and at least in the sepsis literature, there is this idea that albumin may help restore the integrity of that and reduce some of the capillary leakage 683 01:02:01,390 --> 01:02:02,950 in third spacing we see in sepsis. 684 01:02:03,430 --> 01:02:07,030 That's, you know, that is not to the best of my knowledge. 685 01:02:07,090 --> 01:02:08,080 Formally studied. 686 01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:09,940 You need detail in dengue per se. 687 01:02:10,930 --> 01:02:21,865 Um, but what is studied in detail in dengue is from a clinician a clinician standpoint, is there any benefit to albumin containing fluids over just, you know, LR. 688 01:02:22,225 --> 01:02:26,515 There isn't there, the same outcomes are the same, right. 689 01:02:27,085 --> 01:02:28,585 And, and that's fine. 690 01:02:28,585 --> 01:02:39,145 And actually from a standpoint of a disease that overwhelmingly affects people in resource limited settings, that's good news quite frankly if there was a massive improvement of the albumin, that could be very challenging to scale. 691 01:02:39,835 --> 01:02:43,195 Um, you know, you mentioned TNF alpha and inhibition. 692 01:02:43,195 --> 01:02:44,845 This is, again, this is an animal model thing. 693 01:02:44,875 --> 01:02:47,245 It's actually pretty hard to make animal models for dengue. 694 01:02:47,695 --> 01:02:50,675 Like it's pretty easy to infect animals with dengue. 695 01:02:51,055 --> 01:02:53,545 Uh, when I was working in Peru, we had rodent models. 696 01:02:53,545 --> 01:02:55,525 We had a non-human primate models. 697 01:02:55,735 --> 01:02:59,155 They can get infected, they can get viremic, but they don't get that sick. 698 01:02:59,815 --> 01:03:04,195 Um, so, uh, a, an animal model of severe dengue is challenging. 699 01:03:04,195 --> 01:03:11,605 There are some, uh, rodent models where they can see like, um, worsening, uh, not even worse than it really is a word. 700 01:03:11,995 --> 01:03:13,945 Um, erythroderma basically. 701 01:03:14,695 --> 01:03:18,505 They, they, you know, are erythroderma and that is a surrogate marker. 702 01:03:18,805 --> 01:03:21,325 Um, but yeah, so TNF alpha inhibition. 703 01:03:21,325 --> 01:03:26,095 We're not going to be starting everyone on Remicade to treat, uh, uh, DHF right now. 704 01:03:26,485 --> 01:03:33,805 Antivirals, you mentioned that it is a flavivirus and we are right now in a golden age of flavirvirus therapeutics because of hepatitis C. 705 01:03:34,255 --> 01:03:39,535 Uh, there is nothing that is currently, you know, anywhere near marketing right now, but there's some early data. 706 01:03:39,535 --> 01:03:46,285 And I think obviously this has been able to be built on the really built on the back of successful antiviral rollouts for hepatitis C. 707 01:03:46,285 --> 01:03:55,945 And of course, although it's a very different virus we've had of course success with some, uh, at least with some, uh, antiviral therapies for COVID-19. 708 01:03:55,945 --> 01:04:00,055 So hopefully those will continue to progress and make some, make some progress there. 709 01:04:00,295 --> 01:04:01,255 And then steroids, right? 710 01:04:01,255 --> 01:04:04,225 Anytime anyone's got fever and shocks and one wants to throw steroids out at. 711 01:04:06,140 --> 01:04:13,850 I am recorded on tape somewhere saying, uh, in, uh, February of 2020 that I thought steroids for COVID were going to be a bad idea. 712 01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:30,380 Um, I, uh, I, I think I like to tell that story as a, as a case of showing how science is flexible, that science adapts to new data that we change our minds when we are confronted with new information, I of course changed my mind about that. 713 01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:38,750 Um, but, uh, steroids for there are, have been trials of steroids for severe dengue gay, and it just doesn't work. 714 01:04:38,810 --> 01:04:39,590 It just doesn't work. 715 01:04:39,590 --> 01:04:42,590 It does not have that doesn't improve any patient centered endpoint. 716 01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,220 Um, and so I would not recommend using that as well. 717 01:04:46,220 --> 01:04:49,190 So it's largely fluids and human dynamics support. 718 01:04:49,190 --> 01:04:51,230 We don't give a lot of blood products for this. 719 01:04:51,290 --> 01:04:55,280 Uh, we generally try to avoid giving platelets for anything other than overt hemorrhage. 720 01:04:55,940 --> 01:04:58,910 Um, you know, meaning like if you're starting to have. 721 01:04:59,965 --> 01:05:01,975 And your platelet count is 10. 722 01:05:02,035 --> 01:05:02,395 Okay. 723 01:05:02,395 --> 01:05:16,885 I even, I would probably give platelets for that, but even for petechiae um, very low platelet counts in the non bleeding patient, it, it would take a lot to provoke platelet transfusion, and I would generally try to shy away from it. 724 01:05:16,915 --> 01:05:19,405 You're just kind of fueling the fire there in that case. 725 01:05:20,305 --> 01:05:32,065 Um, generally these folks do very well with just supportive care and again, the mortality of severe dengue and dengue shock syndrome in a resource rich environment is about 0.1%. 726 01:05:32,095 --> 01:05:39,415 It's very low and likely this relatively young man will have a very good outcome with just supportive care, which may be hemodynamic support. 727 01:05:39,415 --> 01:05:44,305 It may just be fluids, maybe a little bit of blood products, depending on the situation you find yourself in. 728 01:05:46,260 --> 01:05:46,500 James Wilson: Yeah. 729 01:05:46,620 --> 01:05:47,790 And thank you for that. 730 01:05:47,790 --> 01:05:50,950 He did well over a course of time in the hospital and made his way home. 731 01:05:52,415 --> 01:05:54,425 You know, it was just supportive care, as, as you mentioned. 732 01:05:55,445 --> 01:05:57,635 to kind Of, I guess, tie it all back to the beginning. 733 01:05:57,635 --> 01:06:09,215 We talked about the vaccine, um, and to save Sara from us, talking for too long, uh, the travel locations and risks, you know, in prevention, we've kind of talked about it's more urban than rural. 734 01:06:09,485 --> 01:06:14,395 It's mostly in patients uh, that are traveling who've had exposure before. 735 01:06:14,555 --> 01:06:19,085 Endemic patients are the ones that get the most severe dengue, more frequently in the younger ages. 736 01:06:19,575 --> 01:06:30,915 But there has been a reemergence in the United States and in Florida in 2020, they had 40 travelers with it and then they had 71 transmission cases secondary to that and Southern Florida. 737 01:06:31,395 --> 01:06:37,095 Um, and so this has becoming a consideration in the United States and Florida and Texas, mostly. 738 01:06:37,665 --> 01:06:39,975 Uh, and so it seems that it's diurnal. 739 01:06:40,065 --> 01:06:44,985 Um, and so it's mostly DEET, permethrin, drainage of the pools and ponds that you had mentioned. 740 01:06:45,375 --> 01:06:50,325 Um, but we're, we're not walking around with bed nets outside during the day. 741 01:06:50,325 --> 01:06:50,985 And so, 742 01:06:51,030 --> 01:06:55,920 Ryan Maves: generally, it's not practical, you know, bed nets, serve as an important, a key part of malaria prevention. 743 01:06:55,950 --> 01:06:57,390 But of course that's for your sleeping. 744 01:06:57,390 --> 01:07:02,850 And again, the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are diurnal mosquitoes. 745 01:07:02,850 --> 01:07:03,980 These are daytime mosquitoes. 746 01:07:03,980 --> 01:07:24,440 So bed nets are not going to help, but in particularly in, in a highly endemic area, you know, DEET or picardin and based repellents for your skin, and then, adjunctively, you could use permethrin treatment of clothing, typically one treatment with permethrin should cover your clothing for, you know, for the, for the duration for many washings, for the duration of your travel. 747 01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:30,445 Um, It is worth noting that DEET can kind of dissolve the stretchy part of your socks. 748 01:07:30,955 --> 01:07:33,295 So just, uh, just be careful with that. 749 01:07:33,505 --> 01:07:41,455 I also discovered that DEET dissolves the little, uh, the glue on the back of your iPhone that holds the battery in place, not iPhone. 750 01:07:41,455 --> 01:07:42,955 I'm so sorry, apple watch. 751 01:07:43,345 --> 01:07:54,085 Um, this is not a formal endorsement of the products of Apple corporation, but, um, but I will say I had two, uh, that happened to me when I came back from the Amazon, once that my watch fell apart. 752 01:07:54,625 --> 01:07:55,375 So be careful. 753 01:07:58,315 --> 01:08:05,665 Um, it is a solvent, um, very safe, obviously for the skin, keep it away from your eyes, keep it away from your mouth. 754 01:08:05,665 --> 01:08:08,065 If you're traveling with children, help them apply it themselves. 755 01:08:08,575 --> 01:08:10,315 Uh, we talked about the vaccine. 756 01:08:10,315 --> 01:08:13,645 It is just for the great majority of listeners of this podcast. 757 01:08:13,645 --> 01:08:16,435 It's not a vaccine that's going to be of much use to them right now. 758 01:08:16,975 --> 01:08:32,245 Uh, there is always a lot of interest in trying to make a broader and safer vaccine, but you know, when you talk about the severe dengue and the antibody dependent enhancement, you see the problem with the dengue vaccine, right, is you got to make a vaccine that causes lat long lasting and uniform protection against all four serotypes. 759 01:08:32,245 --> 01:08:44,955 And if you have waning effectiveness against just one serotype and we all have seen, of course from COVID that the duration of protection and the duration of antibody titers against a given strain serotype variant of a virus can be variable. 760 01:08:45,375 --> 01:08:50,205 Um, the danger is that you could inadvertently provoke severe dengue with your vaccine. 761 01:08:50,595 --> 01:08:59,200 Uh, No th that hasn't actually been seen much in, in dengue vaccine trials and this, but this is the challenge that we have to overcome in vaccinology. 762 01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:04,300 And I was very lucky early in my career that dengue vaccines, one of the first things I worked on. 763 01:09:04,300 --> 01:09:10,900 And so I learned a ton about vaccinology, about how vaccines work, about a vaccine development from it. 764 01:09:10,900 --> 01:09:21,520 And, and it is really a much like in the old days where a Osler would say that to learn syphilis is to learn medicine, um, to learn dengue, to learn vaccinology. 765 01:09:21,665 --> 01:09:27,035 Uh, in terms of, um, you know, you talked about local emergence in North America. 766 01:09:27,095 --> 01:09:29,465 I mean, there's always been some dengue here, right? 767 01:09:29,465 --> 01:09:35,195 I mean, right after the revolutionary war, there was a massive yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia. 768 01:09:35,495 --> 01:09:46,835 I believe the, uh, the gentleman after whom your institution is named, Benjamin Rush, was famous for, uh, for caring for patients during said yellow fever outbreak. 769 01:09:47,345 --> 01:09:50,915 Um, and there is a certain amount of dengue in parts of Texas as it is. 770 01:09:51,015 --> 01:09:58,855 Areas near the Texas Mexico border, because again, the Rio Grande is not a forcefield, mosquitoes and people can move across the border pretty easily. 771 01:09:59,215 --> 01:10:03,715 And then when we say Florida, we're really talking like, kind of the Caribbean parts of Florida, right? 772 01:10:03,715 --> 01:10:08,605 So we're talking to Miami, we're talking the Keys, Key West, and the like but there is. 773 01:10:09,660 --> 01:10:10,380 I apologize. 774 01:10:10,380 --> 01:10:11,100 That's my dog. 775 01:10:11,340 --> 01:10:11,520 He's 776 01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:12,450 very excited right now. 777 01:10:13,050 --> 01:10:18,570 Um, but there is a certain amount of endemic, uh, dengue in North America. 778 01:10:18,630 --> 01:10:31,950 And certainly depending on the direction that, uh, climate change takes, that zone may increase now might not increase as much as we think it does because we have competent vectors in North America already, right? 779 01:10:32,090 --> 01:10:40,500 Aedes albopictus already lives in North America, and a lot of the things that prevent widespread transmission of dengue are not, are related to vector control. 780 01:10:41,070 --> 01:10:52,020 Um, so, and some of these things are very simple, like indoor air conditioning, for example, uh, plays a big role in preventing further dengue propagation throughout the United States. 781 01:10:52,020 --> 01:10:57,000 And it's probably broadly true of lots of, um, arthropod borne infections. 782 01:10:57,630 --> 01:10:59,970 Um, but it is a thing we have to be worried about. 783 01:10:59,970 --> 01:11:01,200 We do have to be concerned about. 784 01:11:01,350 --> 01:11:05,280 And so hopefully we'll, uh, hopefully we'll dodge that bullet, but time will tell. 785 01:11:06,968 --> 01:11:07,778 Sara Dong: All right. 786 01:11:07,868 --> 01:11:12,968 Thank you again to James and Ryan for joining Febrile and I guess I should add Ryan's dog! 787 01:11:13,018 --> 01:11:18,958 If you missed it, you can check out our last episode for more discussion on fever and returning traveler with Shilpa and Christina. 788 01:11:19,438 --> 01:11:23,998 In addition, there'll be more to come on this topic with our next episode and case. 789 01:11:24,358 --> 01:11:34,918 Don't forget to check out the website, febrile podcast.com, to find the Consult Notes, which are written complements of the show with links to references, our library of ID infographics, and a link to our merch store. 790 01:11:35,538 --> 01:11:39,588 Please reach out if you have any suggestions for future shows or want to be more involved with Febrile. 791 01:11:39,918 --> 01:11:42,498 Thanks for listening, stay safe and we'll see you next time