TY - JOUR
T1 - Snake bite
T2 - An unusual cause of ischaemic stroke
AU - Bhojaraja, Mohan
AU - Prabhu, M. Mukhyaprana
AU - Stanley, Weena
AU - Sanket, Shah
AU - Marimuthu, Varun Kumar Nachimuthu
AU - Kanakalakshmi, Sushma T.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Snake bite continues to be one of the major and potential contributors for morbidity and mortality in India. Intracranial haemorrhage causing neurological deficits is a known entity due to snake bite but presentation with infarction is rare. The authors report a case of a healthy middle aged female who presented within hours of envenomation with altered sensorium and evaluation revealed left hemiplegia with deranged coagulation profile and multiple ischaemic infarcts instead of haemorrhage as a consequence of vasculotoxic envenomation due to viper bite.
AB - Snake bite continues to be one of the major and potential contributors for morbidity and mortality in India. Intracranial haemorrhage causing neurological deficits is a known entity due to snake bite but presentation with infarction is rare. The authors report a case of a healthy middle aged female who presented within hours of envenomation with altered sensorium and evaluation revealed left hemiplegia with deranged coagulation profile and multiple ischaemic infarcts instead of haemorrhage as a consequence of vasculotoxic envenomation due to viper bite.
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U2 - 10.4066/AMJ.2016.2629
DO - 10.4066/AMJ.2016.2629
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973130301
SN - 1836-1935
VL - 9
SP - 138
EP - 141
JO - Australasian Medical Journal
JF - Australasian Medical Journal
IS - 5
ER -