Excessive fibrinolysis: The coagulopathy following Merrem's hump-nosed viper (Hypnale hypnale) bites

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 821-823

  Premawardena, A P ^a   Seneviratne, S L ^a   Gunatilake, S B ^a   De Silva, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SNAKEBITE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0031780320     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.58.821     Document Type: Article

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