%0 Journal Article
%T On the unsual hemorrhagic and necrotic activities caused by the rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus cumanensis) in a Venezuelan patient
%A Erika Yoshida-Kanashiro
%A Luis F. Navarrete
%A Alexis Rodr¨ªguez-Acosta
%J Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical
%D 2003
%I Centro Nacional de Informaci¨®n de Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X The hemorrhagic, necrotic and edematous effects observed in a 23-year-old patient from Lagunetica, Los Teques, state of Miranda, Venezuela, that was bitten by a commom Venezuelan rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus cumanensi), were described. The patient was treated with polyvalente serum, antibiotics and autograft. This finding allows to suggest that the poison of some Venezuelan common rattlesnakes has a systemic effect on the skeletal muscle and on capillaries that generate edema, hemorragic phenomena and necrosis Se describieron los efectos hemorr¨¢gico, necr¨®tico y edematoso en un paciente de 23 a os, proveniente de Lagunetica, Los Teques, estado Miranda, Venezuela, ocasionados por la mordedura de una serpiente cascabel com¨²n venezolana (Crotalus durissus cumanensis). El paciente recibi¨® tratamiento con suero polivalente, antibi¨®ticos y un autoinjerto. Este hallazgo, permite sugerir que el veneno de algunas serpientes cascabeles comunes en Venezuela, poseen un efecto sist¨¦mico sobre el m¨²sculo esquel¨¦tico, y tambi¨¦n efectos sobre capilares que generan edema, fen¨®menos hemorr¨¢gicos y necrosis.
%K VENENOS DE SERPIENTES
%K HEMORRAGIA
%K VENENOS CROTALIDOS
%K NECROSIS
%K EDEMA
%K SISTEMA MUSCULOESQUELETICO
%K CAPILARES
%K SNAKE VENOMS
%K HEMORRAGE
%K CROTALID VENOMS
%K NECROSIS
%K EDEMA
%K MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
%K CAPILLARIES
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