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Snakebite Causing Facial and Lingual Tremors: A Case Report

Snakebite is a significant public health problem causing around 2.7 envenomations and 138,000 deaths globally. History may sometimes be unclear or misleading, which can cause a delay in diagnosis. Neuroparalytic, hemotoxic, and myotoxic are the common snake bite manifestations. Neuroparalytic snake...

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Autores principales: Kaeley, Nidhi, Prasad, Hari, Singhal, Ashutosh, Subhra Datta, Soumya, Galagali, Santosh S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9449249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36106299
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27798
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author Kaeley, Nidhi
Prasad, Hari
Singhal, Ashutosh
Subhra Datta, Soumya
Galagali, Santosh S
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description Snakebite is a significant public health problem causing around 2.7 envenomations and 138,000 deaths globally. History may sometimes be unclear or misleading, which can cause a delay in diagnosis. Neuroparalytic, hemotoxic, and myotoxic are the common snake bite manifestations. Neuroparalytic snake bites rarely cause involuntary movements. Here we report a case of a 26-year-old female patient who sustained a snake bite and developed tremors in the face and tongue. She improved with mechanical ventilation, anti-snake venom, atropine-neostigmine, and calcium gluconate. She was discharged after seven days of hospital stay and now maintaining regular follow-up in the outpatient clinic.
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spelling pubmed-94492492022-09-13 Snakebite Causing Facial and Lingual Tremors: A Case Report Kaeley, Nidhi Prasad, Hari Singhal, Ashutosh Subhra Datta, Soumya Galagali, Santosh S Cureus Emergency Medicine Snakebite is a significant public health problem causing around 2.7 envenomations and 138,000 deaths globally. History may sometimes be unclear or misleading, which can cause a delay in diagnosis. Neuroparalytic, hemotoxic, and myotoxic are the common snake bite manifestations. Neuroparalytic snake bites rarely cause involuntary movements. Here we report a case of a 26-year-old female patient who sustained a snake bite and developed tremors in the face and tongue. She improved with mechanical ventilation, anti-snake venom, atropine-neostigmine, and calcium gluconate. She was discharged after seven days of hospital stay and now maintaining regular follow-up in the outpatient clinic. Cureus 2022-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9449249/ /pubmed/36106299 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27798 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kaeley 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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Kaeley, Nidhi
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title Snakebite Causing Facial and Lingual Tremors: A Case Report
title_full Snakebite Causing Facial and Lingual Tremors: A Case Report
title_fullStr Snakebite Causing Facial and Lingual Tremors: A Case Report
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title_short Snakebite Causing Facial and Lingual Tremors: A Case Report
title_sort snakebite causing facial and lingual tremors: a case report
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9449249/
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