Fatal Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis Following Viperine Bite

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 342-344

  Singh, Surjit ^a,b   Dass, Ashim ^b   Jain, Sanjay ^a   Varma, Subhash ^a   Bannerjee, Ashru Kumar ^b   Sharma, Bai Krishan ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIG); Non bacterial thrombotic endocarditis; Viper bite

Indexed keywords

VIPER VENOM;

ADULT; ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENDOCARDITIS; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFARCTION; KIDNEY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPLEEN; THROMBOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ENDOCARDITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFARCTION; KIDNEY; MALE; SNAKE BITES; SPLEEN; THROMBOSIS; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0032014299     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.342     Document Type: Article

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