Acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite

The desert monitor, Varanus griseus, is a species of desert monitor lizard found in North-Western India. They are believed to be non-poisonous. We report a case of Indian desert monitor bite leading to acute renal failure following rhabdomyolysis and severe sepsis. Prompt diagnosis and treatment res...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Poonam, Verma, Pradeep Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29242657
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_241_17
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description The desert monitor, Varanus griseus, is a species of desert monitor lizard found in North-Western India. They are believed to be non-poisonous. We report a case of Indian desert monitor bite leading to acute renal failure following rhabdomyolysis and severe sepsis. Prompt diagnosis and treatment resulted in the favourable outcome. This is author's intent to highlight the complication that may occur after Indian desert monitor bite.
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spelling pubmed-56648902017-12-14 Acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite Gupta, Poonam Verma, Pradeep Kumar Indian J Anaesth Case Report The desert monitor, Varanus griseus, is a species of desert monitor lizard found in North-Western India. They are believed to be non-poisonous. We report a case of Indian desert monitor bite leading to acute renal failure following rhabdomyolysis and severe sepsis. Prompt diagnosis and treatment resulted in the favourable outcome. This is author's intent to highlight the complication that may occur after Indian desert monitor bite. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5664890/ /pubmed/29242657 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_241_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite
title_full Acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite
title_fullStr Acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite
title_full_unstemmed Acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite
title_short Acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite
title_sort acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis and sepsis after non-poisonous desert monitor bite
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664890/
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