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What Does Fever And Swollen Legs Indicate?
Dear Doctor, My brother stays in Bhopal and is diabitic, obese. He visited New Delhi on 3 rd November in Faridabad. He was down with fever, than started vomiting, and was hospatilized.At present he has swollen legs both sides and stomach is also swollen. Per Doctor, they started cure for dengue, later scrubtyphus, and also later started saying that he has hepatitis E. He is on oxygen as he is facing problem to take normal breath.We are all worrid. Legs has all rashes and black spots.
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Thu, 13 Mar 2014
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I'm afraid your brother is in a serious condition labelled as DIC short for disseminated Intravascular coagulation and needs to be in tertiary care hospital
It is life threatening and may have caused deep vein thrombosis in the legs
Hope for the best
I'm afraid your brother is in a serious condition labelled as DIC short for disseminated Intravascular coagulation and needs to be in tertiary care hospital
It is life threatening and may have caused deep vein thrombosis in the legs
Hope for the best
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