Prolonged venous bleeding due to traditional treatment with leech bite: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kaya, Bulent ^a   Bat, Orhan ^a   Bulut, Nuriye Esen ^a   Altun, Hasan ^a   Memisoglu, Kemal ^a  

^a Department of General Surgery   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEECH; LEECHING; LEG VARICOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN INJURY; VEIN DILATATION; VEIN LIGATION; WOUND CARE;

EID: 79955661823     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-172     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Evaluation of performance characteristics of the medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) for the treatment of venous congestion. ML Conforti NP Connor DM Heisey GK Hartig, Plast Reconstr Surg 2002 109 228 235 10.1097/00006534- 200201000-00034 11786816 (Pubitemid 34056681)
2. Calin - a platelet adhesion inhibitor from the saliva of the medicinal leech. R Munro CP Jones RT Sawyer, Blood Coagul Fibrinol 1991 2 179 184 10.1097/00001721-199102000-00027
3. Aquatic leech infestation: a rare cause of severe anemia in an adolescent Tanzanian girl. C Kruger I Malleyeck OH Olsen, Eur J Pediatr 2004 163 297 299 10.1007/s00431-004-1422-0 15346909 (Pubitemid 38725533)
4. Unavoidable epistaxis in the nasal infection of leeches. A Bergua F Vizmanas FJ Monzon RM Blasco, Acta Otorrinolaringol Esp 1993 44 391 393 8129977
5. Severe rectal bleeding due to leech bite. SM Raj M Radzi MH Tee, Am J Gastroenterol 2000 95 1607 10894624 (Pubitemid 30396343)
6. Severe urological complication of leech bite in the tropics. MS Hamid GR Mohd Nar, Br J Urol 1996 77 164 165 8653299
7. Severe anaemia and death due to pharyngeal leech Myxobdella africana. DB Cundoll SM Whitehead FO Hechtel, Trans R SOC Trop Med Hyg 1986 80 940 944 10.1016/0035-9203(86)90265-8 3603642
8. DDAVP reduces bleeding during continued hirudin administration in the rabbit. CM Bove B Casey VJ Marder, Thromb Haemost 1996 75 471 475 8701410 (Pubitemid 26099714)