Introduction:

The seventh cholera pandemic arrived to the Americas in 1991. In Cuba for more than 130 years there were no case reports.

Objectives:

To identify and characterize the complications by cholera and its relation with clinical characteristics and treatment.

Methods:

A descriptive and prospective study was conducted from 2013 to 2017 to the patients who had been confirmed with V. cholerae as exclusive cause of acute diarrheal disease. The qualitative variables were described statistically using absolute and relative frequencies, and for the quantitative variables were used the average, medium, and standard deviation and the interquartile range as dispersion measures.

Results:

36.5% of the patients presented complications where dehydration was the most frequent. The value of the median time between the onset of symptoms and attention in the center was lower in patients with complications in comparison with the observed in non-complicated patients, but the difference was not significant (24.0 h [RI: 24,0-72,0 h] vs. 48,0 h [RI: 24,0-72,0 h], p= 0.355).

Conclusions:

Most of the patients did not present complications and the most frequent is the slight dehydration.

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