Abstract

VALAREZO SEVILLA, Diego; SARZOSA TERAN, Vanessa  and  QUINTEROS VACA, Cristian. Thrombocytopenia due to aracnidism in a young adult. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.8, pp. 984-989. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case report of a 26 years patient, assisted in the Hospital of the Ecuadorean Institute for Social Security of Ibarra city, after being bitten by a spider of the Cyclosternum sp gender and of the Theraphosidae family is described. The main characteristic of the clinical pattern was a decrease of platelets values in 29%. He was treated with intravenous hydrocortisone and 5 weeks later the platelets reached their initial value. The relevance of the case is given by the infrequent of this reaction as a result of the bite of this spider species

Keywords : aracnidism; thrombocytopenia; hydrocortisone.

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