Adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere

Snakebite envenomation is an uncommon condition in the northern hemisphere, but requires high vigilance with regard to both the systemic effects of the venom and the locoregional impact on the soft tissues. Bites from the adder, Vipera Berus, may have serious clinical consequences due to systemic ef...

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Autores principales: Evers, Lars H, Bartscher, Tanja, Lange, Thomas, Mailänder, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20854675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-50
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author Evers, Lars H
Bartscher, Tanja
Lange, Thomas
Mailänder, Peter
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Mailänder, Peter
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description Snakebite envenomation is an uncommon condition in the northern hemisphere, but requires high vigilance with regard to both the systemic effects of the venom and the locoregional impact on the soft tissues. Bites from the adder, Vipera Berus, may have serious clinical consequences due to systemic effects. A case of a 44-year-old man is reported. The patient was bitten in the right hand. He developed fasciotomy-requiring compartment syndrome of the upper limb. Recognition of this most seldom complication of an adder bite is vital to save the limb. We recommend that the classical signs and symptoms of compartment syndrome serve as indication for surgical decompression.
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spelling pubmed-29496682010-10-06 Adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere Evers, Lars H Bartscher, Tanja Lange, Thomas Mailänder, Peter Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Case Report Snakebite envenomation is an uncommon condition in the northern hemisphere, but requires high vigilance with regard to both the systemic effects of the venom and the locoregional impact on the soft tissues. Bites from the adder, Vipera Berus, may have serious clinical consequences due to systemic effects. A case of a 44-year-old man is reported. The patient was bitten in the right hand. He developed fasciotomy-requiring compartment syndrome of the upper limb. Recognition of this most seldom complication of an adder bite is vital to save the limb. We recommend that the classical signs and symptoms of compartment syndrome serve as indication for surgical decompression. BioMed Central 2010-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2949668/ /pubmed/20854675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-50 Text en Copyright ©2010 Evers et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere
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title_full Adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere
title_fullStr Adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere
title_full_unstemmed Adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere
title_short Adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere
title_sort adder bite: an uncommon cause of compartment syndrome in northern hemisphere
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20854675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-50
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