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Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical

Print version ISSN 0375-0760On-line version ISSN 1561-3054

Abstract

YOSHIDA-KANASHIRO, Erika; NAVARRETE, Luis F.  and  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 0375-0760.

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

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

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