Chikungunya, enfermedad emergente en América Latina.: Descripción de los primeros casos en Chile

Cecilia Perret Pérez; Cecilia Vizcaya; Thomas Weitzel; Reinaldo Rosas; Jeannette Dabanch; Constanza Martínez

doi:10.4067/s0716-10182018000400413

Chikungunya, enfermedad emergente en América Latina. Descripción de los primeros casos en Chile

Cecilia Perret Pérez^*
, Cecilia Vizcaya
, Thomas Weitzel
, Reinaldo Rosas
, Jeannette Dabanch
, Constanza Martínez

^*Autor correspondiente de este trabajo

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Resumen

Introducción:
Chikungunya (CHIK) se introduce en América el año 2013 diseminándose rápidamente. En 2014, se diagnosticó el primer caso importado en Chile.
Objetivos:
Identificar pacientes con sospecha clínica de CHIK. Describir sus características clínicas y laboratorio.
Pacientes y Métodos:
Se enrolaron pacientes con sospecha de CHIK. Se confirmó mediante reacción de polimerasa en cadena (RPC), IgM o IgG CHIKV. Se aplicó encuesta con preguntas demográficas, características del viaje, manifestaciones clínicas y laboratorio a pacientes y médicos tratantes.
Resultados:
Se enrolaron 21 pacientes, confirmando CHIK en 16 que se analizaron; 12 mujeres (75%), promedio edad 39 años (27-52). Exposición más frecuente fue el Caribe y Sudamérica. El síntoma inicial fue artralgia en 63%. Los síntomas más frecuentes fueron mialgias y malestar general (100%), fiebre y poliartralgia (94%). La mediana de duración de artralgias 90 días (3-262 días) y en 53% > 3 meses. Las articulaciones más comprometidas fueron tobillos, manos y muñecas, 87% con dolor invalidante. La artritis duró más en hombres que en mujeres (p < 0,001). El 38% de pacientes presentó linfopenia y un paciente trombocitopenia leve. Hubo dos hospitalizaciones por cefalea y pielonefritis aguda.
Conclusiones:
Chikungunya debe sospecharse en viajeros que regresan febriles y con poliartralgias intensas. Medidas de prevención deben ser indicadas a viajeros a zonas de riesgo.

Título traducido de la contribución	Chikungunya, emerging disease in Latin America. : Description of the first cases in Chile
Idioma original	Español
Páginas (desde-hasta)	413-419
Número de páginas	7
Publicación	Revista Chilena de Infectologia
Volumen	35
N.º	4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.4067/s0716-10182018000400413
Estado	Publicada - ago. 2018
Publicado de forma externa	Sí

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serie clínica
artropatía
Chikungunya
Chile
medicina del viajero
artralgia

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