Infant death after nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes ammodytes) bite in Croatia: A case report

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1506-1509

  Lukšić, Boris ^a   Čulić, Viktor ^a   Stričević, Luka ^a   Brizić, Ivica ^b   Poljak, Nikola K ^a   Tadić, Zoran ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cardiotoxicity; Coagulopathy; DIC; Snake venom; Snakebite; Viper venom; Vipera ammodytes ammodytes

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; VIPER VENOM;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD DEATH; COMA; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CROATIA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; ENVENOMATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; MALE; OLIGURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOCK; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SOMNOLENCE; SWELLING; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA;

ANIMALS; CROATIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SNAKE BITES; VIPERIDAE;

BITIS CAUDALIS; VIPERA AMMODYTES AMMODYTES; VIPERINAE;

EID: 77958452839     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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