Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case

Hump-nosed pit viper (Genus Hypnale) is a medically important venomous snake in Sri Lanka and Southwestern India which causes significant morbidity and mortality. Envenoming of this snake results in hemostastic dysfunction, thrombotic microangiopathy, acute kidney injury and death. This case describ...

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Autores principales: jeevagan, Vijayabala, Chang, Thashi, Gnanathasan, Christeine Ariaranee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22992295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-9560-10-21
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description Hump-nosed pit viper (Genus Hypnale) is a medically important venomous snake in Sri Lanka and Southwestern India which causes significant morbidity and mortality. Envenoming of this snake results in hemostastic dysfunction, thrombotic microangiopathy, acute kidney injury and death. This case describes an authenticated first case of ischemic stroke in a 65 year old male following envenoming by H.hypnale in Sri Lanka.
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spelling pubmed-35021892012-11-21 Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case jeevagan, Vijayabala Chang, Thashi Gnanathasan, Christeine Ariaranee Thromb J Case Report Hump-nosed pit viper (Genus Hypnale) is a medically important venomous snake in Sri Lanka and Southwestern India which causes significant morbidity and mortality. Envenoming of this snake results in hemostastic dysfunction, thrombotic microangiopathy, acute kidney injury and death. This case describes an authenticated first case of ischemic stroke in a 65 year old male following envenoming by H.hypnale in Sri Lanka. BioMed Central 2012-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3502189/ /pubmed/22992295 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-9560-10-21 Text en Copyright ©2012 Jeevagan 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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Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case
title Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case
title_full Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case
title_fullStr Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case
title_full_unstemmed Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case
title_short Acute ischemic stroke following Hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case
title_sort acute ischemic stroke following hump-nosed viper envenoming; first authenticated case
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502189/
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