Introduction:

Dengue is a contagious infectious disease of varying intensity that originates from tropical climates such as those that predominate in the region of the Americas. It is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and affect the pediatric population. Its clinical spectrum includes alterations in cardiac conduction and bradycardia.

Objective:

To characterize dengue with bradycardia in adolescents.

Methods:

A descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective observational study was carried out at the Dr. Eduardo Agramonte Piña University Provincial Pediatric Hospital in Camagüey province in the period from January to December 2021.The universe was made up of 28 patients diagnosed with dengue who presented bradycardia. The data was collected in a from and processed in a database created with SPSS version 22.

Results:

The results grouped in the form of tables, showed a predominance of male patients, from the municipality of Camagüey, among the most frequent initial symptoms is dengue without warning signs, the onset of bradycardia is during hospitalization, it occurs in all patients, in most cases the duration is in the recovery stage.

Conclusions:

Among the symptoms found, patients who did not present dengue alarm signs was associated with sinus bradycardia during recovery.

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