Dengue Fever with Hemolysis: Unmasking Beta-Thalassemia

Abstract

Intravascular hemolysis is a rare but known complication of Dengue infection. Following is the description of a patient who presented with features of intravascular hemolysis with other sequelae of Dengue infection. Clinical stigmata of chronic iron overload led to a search for the aetiology of chronic hemolysis, which resulted in a diagnosis of non-transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia.