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Acute anuric renal failure after pigmy rattlesnake bite
N G Ahlstrom1, W Luginbuhl, C C Tisher
1Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610.
Southern Medical Journal
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
Acute renal failure has been known to follow viper bites in up to 30% of patients, but we believe we have reported the first case in which anuric renal failure developed after the bite of a pigmy rattlesnake. Our patient's renal failure is thought to have been due to a combination of rhabdomyolysis and intrarenal thrombosis caused by DIC. Prompt surgical debridement should be offered to the victim of a bite by any poisonous snake, and antivenin should be administered to any patient with signs of systemic envenomation, with close monitoring for signs of allergic reactions.