Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report

Gross haematuria is an unusual complication of Honey bee stings. Herein, we report a rare case of gross haematuria following multiple honeybees stings in an 8-year-old Nigerian child with sickle cell anaemia. The patient had evidence of massive intravascular haemolysis and was transfused with a unit...

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Autores principales: Odinaka, Kelechi Kenneth, Achigbu, Kingsley, Ike, Ifeanyi, Iregbu, Francis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657498
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.149175
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author Odinaka, Kelechi Kenneth
Achigbu, Kingsley
Ike, Ifeanyi
Iregbu, Francis
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description Gross haematuria is an unusual complication of Honey bee stings. Herein, we report a rare case of gross haematuria following multiple honeybees stings in an 8-year-old Nigerian child with sickle cell anaemia. The patient had evidence of massive intravascular haemolysis and was transfused with a unit of fresh whole blood. However, he died within 36 hours on admission despite medical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-43148652015-02-05 Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report Odinaka, Kelechi Kenneth Achigbu, Kingsley Ike, Ifeanyi Iregbu, Francis Niger Med J Case Report Gross haematuria is an unusual complication of Honey bee stings. Herein, we report a rare case of gross haematuria following multiple honeybees stings in an 8-year-old Nigerian child with sickle cell anaemia. The patient had evidence of massive intravascular haemolysis and was transfused with a unit of fresh whole blood. However, he died within 36 hours on admission despite medical intervention. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4314865/ /pubmed/25657498 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.149175 Text en Copyright: © Nigerian Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Odinaka, Kelechi Kenneth
Achigbu, Kingsley
Ike, Ifeanyi
Iregbu, Francis
Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report
title Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report
title_full Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report
title_fullStr Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report
title_short Bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old Nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: A case report
title_sort bee sting envenomation resulting in gross haematuria in an eight-year-old nigerian male with sickle cell anaemia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657498
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.149175
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