Thrombotic microangiopathy in two tiger snake envenomations

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1124-1127

  Casamento, A J ^a   Isbister, G K ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Envenomation; Thrombotic microangiopathy; Tiger snake

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE; ADAM PROTEIN; ADAMTS13 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HEMOGLOBIN; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; NAUSEA; NOTECHIS SCUTATUS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRESSURE; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VOMITING; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG ANTAGONISM; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADAM PROTEINS; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; SNAKE BITES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES;

EID: 84855365888     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1103900622     Document Type: Article

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