Life threatening intracerebral haemorrhage following saw- scaled viper (Echis carinatus) envenoming-authenticated case report from Sri Lanka

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fonseka, Chathuranga Lakmal ^a   Jeevagan, Vijayabala ^a,c   Gnanathasan, Christeine Ariaranee ^b  

^a University Medical Unit   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; HEMOGLOBIN; KAOLIN; POLYVALENT ANTIVENOM SERUM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVENOMATION; FOOT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PTOSIS; SAW SCALED VIPER ENVENOMING; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SRI LANKA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOPLASTIN TIME;

ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SNAKE BITES; SRI LANKA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIPER VENOMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875838107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-13-5     Document Type: Article

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