Resumen

YOSHIDA-KANASHIRO, Erika; NAVARRETE, Luis F.  y  RODRIGUEZ-ACOSTA, Alexis. On the unsual hemorrhagic and necrotic activities caused by the rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus cumanensis) in a Venezuelan patient. Rev Cubana Med Trop [online]. 2003, vol.55, n.1, pp. 38-40. ISSN 1561-3054.

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

Palabras clave : SNAKE VENOMS; HEMORRAGE; CROTALID VENOMS; NECROSIS; EDEMA; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; CAPILLARIES.

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