There are 6 species of venomous snakes in Taiwan. Two of them, Deinagkistrodon acutus (D. acutus) and Daboia siamensis (D. siamensis), can cause significant coagulopathy. However, a significant proportion of patients with snakebites cannot identify the correct snake species after envenomation, which hamp...
The blunt-nosed viper Macrovipera lebetina (Linnaeus, 1758) is a medically important snake species in the Middle East. Its nominate subspecies Macrovipera l. lebetina is confined to Cyprus, where it is the only dangerously venomous snake species and heavily pursued. Despite the viper's large size, data o...
Antivenoms or antitoxins have been effectively used for more than a century. During this time, these products have always proven to be highly effective in the treatment of infections and envenomations. However, antivenoms did not exhibit good safety results in their initial applications. After many impro...
Bites provoked by the genus Micrurus represent less than 1% of snakebite cases notified in Brazil, a tiny fraction compared with other genus such as Bothrops and Crotalus, which together represent almost 80% of accidents. In addition to their less aggressive behavior, habits and morphology of coral snake...
ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the relationship between time to treatment and severity of snakebite envenomation in Brazil. Methods This case-series retrospective study analyzed 144 251 snakebite cases in Brazil between 2007 and 2015, as reported to the Brazilian Notifiable Diseases Information System. ...
O Brasil é um dos países sul-americanos com maior prevalência de acidentes ofídicos por ano, entretanto esses acontecimentos são considerados negligenciados por países tropicais e subtropicais em desenvolvimento. O objetivo deste artigo foi traçar o perfil epidemiológico dos acidentes ofídicos n...
RESUMEN Introducción: Las mordeduras de serpiente continúan siendo un problema de salud pública, especialmente en países tropicales como Colombia. Objetivo: Caracterizar los casos de accidente ofídico atendidos en un nuevo centro de asesoría toxicológica de Medellín, Colombia. Metodología: S...
Introdução: Em 2009, o Brasil registrou, aproximadamente, 27.665 acidentes ofídicos, a maioria deles nas regiões Norte e Centro Oeste. Objetivo: Traçar o perfil clínico-epidemiológico dos pacientes vítimas de acidentes ofídicos atendidos no Pronto Socorro do município de Cacoal, Rondônia, no p...
Abstract INTRODUCTION Infrared imaging (IR) is a noninvasive technique that quantifies body surface temperature, producing a digital color image. IR has been used to study diseases in which skin temperature can reflect the presence of inflammation. METHODS This was an observational pilot study of eig...
