Delayed Neurological Manifestation in Krait Bites Despite Anti-snake Venom Therapy

A severe medical emergency that poses a life-threatening risk is envenomation from a snake bite. Among the several snake families, krait bites are known to result in neurological symptoms, including ptosis, headache, and sweating. A 12-year-old adolescent boy who had been bitten by a krait appeared...

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Autores principales: Sawhney, Shraddha, Vagha, Keta, Lohiya, Sham, Mishra, Naman, Vagha, Jayant D, Varma, Ashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9630055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348840
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29849
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author Sawhney, Shraddha
Vagha, Keta
Lohiya, Sham
Mishra, Naman
Vagha, Jayant D
Varma, Ashish
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description A severe medical emergency that poses a life-threatening risk is envenomation from a snake bite. Among the several snake families, krait bites are known to result in neurological symptoms, including ptosis, headache, and sweating. A 12-year-old adolescent boy who had been bitten by a krait appeared in this instance. The patient showed neurological symptoms after receiving anti-snake venom (ASV). He had three rounds of ASV and made a full recovery. To the best of our knowledge, there have not yet been any reports of this kind of delayed neurological signs after a krait bite, despite getting ASV in the adolescent population.
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spelling pubmed-96300552022-11-07 Delayed Neurological Manifestation in Krait Bites Despite Anti-snake Venom Therapy Sawhney, Shraddha Vagha, Keta Lohiya, Sham Mishra, Naman Vagha, Jayant D Varma, Ashish Cureus Pediatrics A severe medical emergency that poses a life-threatening risk is envenomation from a snake bite. Among the several snake families, krait bites are known to result in neurological symptoms, including ptosis, headache, and sweating. A 12-year-old adolescent boy who had been bitten by a krait appeared in this instance. The patient showed neurological symptoms after receiving anti-snake venom (ASV). He had three rounds of ASV and made a full recovery. To the best of our knowledge, there have not yet been any reports of this kind of delayed neurological signs after a krait bite, despite getting ASV in the adolescent population. Cureus 2022-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9630055/ /pubmed/36348840 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29849 Text en Copyright © 2022, Sawhney 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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Delayed Neurological Manifestation in Krait Bites Despite Anti-snake Venom Therapy
title Delayed Neurological Manifestation in Krait Bites Despite Anti-snake Venom Therapy
title_full Delayed Neurological Manifestation in Krait Bites Despite Anti-snake Venom Therapy
title_fullStr Delayed Neurological Manifestation in Krait Bites Despite Anti-snake Venom Therapy
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title_short Delayed Neurological Manifestation in Krait Bites Despite Anti-snake Venom Therapy
title_sort delayed neurological manifestation in krait bites despite anti-snake venom therapy
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9630055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348840
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29849
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