Ischemic stroke following a wasp sting – a rare complication: a case report

BACKGROUND: Wasp stings are commonly encountered worldwide and result in a variety of clinical manifestations including local and systemic reactions. Neurological and vascular complications are rarely reported following a wasp sting. CASE PRESENTATION: A 69-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil man presented to...

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Autores principales: Dalugama, Chamara, Gawarammana, Indika Bandara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30316303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1839-0
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description BACKGROUND: Wasp stings are commonly encountered worldwide and result in a variety of clinical manifestations including local and systemic reactions. Neurological and vascular complications are rarely reported following a wasp sting. CASE PRESENTATION: A 69-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil man presented to our hospital with focal neurological deficit following multiple wasp stings; the deficit was confirmed to be an acute infarction on magnetic resonance imaging scan. He was screened for metabolic risk factors which were negative and he had a normal two-dimensional echocardiogram and normal carotid arteries in carotid duplex which excluded potential sources of thromboembolism. CONCLUSION: Treating physicians should be aware of the rare but possible complication of ischemic stroke following a case of wasp sting.
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spelling pubmed-61862942018-10-19 Ischemic stroke following a wasp sting – a rare complication: a case report Dalugama, Chamara Gawarammana, Indika Bandara J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Wasp stings are commonly encountered worldwide and result in a variety of clinical manifestations including local and systemic reactions. Neurological and vascular complications are rarely reported following a wasp sting. CASE PRESENTATION: A 69-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil man presented to our hospital with focal neurological deficit following multiple wasp stings; the deficit was confirmed to be an acute infarction on magnetic resonance imaging scan. He was screened for metabolic risk factors which were negative and he had a normal two-dimensional echocardiogram and normal carotid arteries in carotid duplex which excluded potential sources of thromboembolism. CONCLUSION: Treating physicians should be aware of the rare but possible complication of ischemic stroke following a case of wasp sting. BioMed Central 2018-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6186294/ /pubmed/30316303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1839-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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