Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion

Spider bites, including the bites of recluse spiders (Loxosceles, also known as brown spiders), usually lead to local symptoms; however, severe systemic symptoms have also been reported in the literature. Management of spider bites is based on symptoms. In severe cases involving the development of a...

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Autores principales: Talib, Usama, Abdelfattah, Ahmed H, Talib, Maryam, Dawoud, Hadeel A, Ayub, Nidda, Ayub, Sania, Talib, Amaar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9351826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936160
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26574
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author Talib, Usama
Abdelfattah, Ahmed H
Talib, Maryam
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description Spider bites, including the bites of recluse spiders (Loxosceles, also known as brown spiders), usually lead to local symptoms; however, severe systemic symptoms have also been reported in the literature. Management of spider bites is based on symptoms. In severe cases involving the development of angioedema, hemolytic anemia, skin necrosis with superimposed bacterial infection or disseminated intravascular coagulation, antibiotics, steroids, blood transfusions, and plasma exchange may also play a role. We present a case of a brown recluse spider bite resulting in symptomatic hemolytic anemia and jaundice requiring blood transfusion. 
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spelling pubmed-93518262022-08-05 Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion Talib, Usama Abdelfattah, Ahmed H Talib, Maryam Dawoud, Hadeel A Ayub, Nidda Ayub, Sania Talib, Amaar Cureus Internal Medicine Spider bites, including the bites of recluse spiders (Loxosceles, also known as brown spiders), usually lead to local symptoms; however, severe systemic symptoms have also been reported in the literature. Management of spider bites is based on symptoms. In severe cases involving the development of angioedema, hemolytic anemia, skin necrosis with superimposed bacterial infection or disseminated intravascular coagulation, antibiotics, steroids, blood transfusions, and plasma exchange may also play a role. We present a case of a brown recluse spider bite resulting in symptomatic hemolytic anemia and jaundice requiring blood transfusion.  Cureus 2022-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9351826/ /pubmed/35936160 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26574 Text en Copyright © 2022, Talib et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Talib, Usama
Abdelfattah, Ahmed H
Talib, Maryam
Dawoud, Hadeel A
Ayub, Nidda
Ayub, Sania
Talib, Amaar
Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion
title Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion
title_full Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion
title_fullStr Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion
title_full_unstemmed Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion
title_short Brown Recluse Spider Bite Resulting in Coombs Negative Hemolytic Anemia in a Young Male Requiring Blood Transfusion
title_sort brown recluse spider bite resulting in coombs negative hemolytic anemia in a young male requiring blood transfusion
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9351826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936160
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26574
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