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Multi-organ dysfunction following honeybee bite—A rare entity

Honeybee bites have been known to cause localized allergic reactions and anaphylaxis but systemic toxic reactions leading to multiorgan dysfunction is very rare. Serious complications like acute renal failure, acute myocardial infarction (Kounis syndrome) and even death have been reported as the com...

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Autores principales: Prasad, Satish Kumar, Mehta, Sameer Kumar, Satyanarayan, Bhagyalakshmi, Panda, Suman Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33209844
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_629_20
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author Prasad, Satish Kumar
Mehta, Sameer Kumar
Satyanarayan, Bhagyalakshmi
Panda, Suman Kumar
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description Honeybee bites have been known to cause localized allergic reactions and anaphylaxis but systemic toxic reactions leading to multiorgan dysfunction is very rare. Serious complications like acute renal failure, acute myocardial infarction (Kounis syndrome) and even death have been reported as the complication of honeybee bite. Herein, we report a case of multiorgan dysfunction following honeybee bite, which was complicated with acute kidney injury, thrombocytopenia, bradycardia, keratitis, and deranged liver function along with localized allergic reaction and pain.
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spelling pubmed-76521592020-11-17 Multi-organ dysfunction following honeybee bite—A rare entity Prasad, Satish Kumar Mehta, Sameer Kumar Satyanarayan, Bhagyalakshmi Panda, Suman Kumar J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Honeybee bites have been known to cause localized allergic reactions and anaphylaxis but systemic toxic reactions leading to multiorgan dysfunction is very rare. Serious complications like acute renal failure, acute myocardial infarction (Kounis syndrome) and even death have been reported as the complication of honeybee bite. Herein, we report a case of multiorgan dysfunction following honeybee bite, which was complicated with acute kidney injury, thrombocytopenia, bradycardia, keratitis, and deranged liver function along with localized allergic reaction and pain. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7652159/ /pubmed/33209844 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_629_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Multi-organ dysfunction following honeybee bite—A rare entity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652159/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_629_20
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