Intracranial Haemorrhage — A Life Threatening Consequence of Venom Induced Consumption Coagulopathy in Snake Bite: A Rare Case Report

Nirnay M Prasad; Md Murtuza Kauser; S R Vagesh Kumar; G Prashanth

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Intracranial Haemorrhage — A Life Threatening Consequence of Venom Induced Consumption Coagulopathy in Snake Bite: A Rare Case Report

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International Journal of Preclinical and Clinical Research

DOI: 10.51131/IJPCCR/v3i4.22.46

Year: 2022, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 97-100

Case Report

Intracranial Haemorrhage — A Life Threatening Consequence of Venom Induced Consumption Coagulopathy in Snake Bite: A Rare Case Report

Nirnay M Prasad ¹ , Md Murtuza Kauser ¹ , S R Vagesh Kumar ^{✉ 1} , G Prashanth ¹

¹ Department of General Medicine, Basaveshwara Medical College and Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka, India

Corresponding author ✉: [email protected]

Received Date:25 November 2022, Accepted Date:25 December 2022, Published Date:29 December 2022

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Snake bite envenomation is an acute life-threatening medical emergency. India which is called as the land of snake charmers has an incidence of 1.2 million deaths due to snake bite from 2009 to 2019 with an average mortality of 58,000 1. Ophitoxaemia rarely results in neurological conditions such as an Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) which occurs with venom induced consumptive coagulopathy. We discuss the case report of a 52-year-old man with H/O an unknown snake bite who developed Acute Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) and multiple micro hemorrhages in B/L cerebral hemispheres.

Keywords: Intracranial haemorrhage, Snake bite, Venom induced coagulopathy

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