Brown Recluse Spider (Loxosceles reclusa) Envenomation Leading to Acute Hemolytic Anemia in Six Adolescents

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 155-157

  McDade, Jenny ^a   Aygun, Banu ^a   Ware, Russell E ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; DOPAMINE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COOMBS TEST; ENVENOMATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAUNDICE; LOXOSCELES RECLUSA; MALE; PALLOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; WOUND CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ARACHNIDISM; HUMANS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 72049132901     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.07.021     Document Type: Article

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