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Published on: August 30, 2020
Pseudo-subarachnoid hemorrhage and death after a bee sting
Umit Yasar Tekelioglu1, Abdullah Demirhan, Akcan Akkaya
11Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, 2Department of Radiology, 3Departments of Emergency Medicine; Abant Izzet Baysal University Medical School, Bolu, Turkey.
Abstract:
We report a case of a 33-year-old woman who developed severe brain edema and pseudo-subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) at 36-hour follow-up after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation for anaphylactic shock as a result of a bee sting. The patient died on the sixth day of the follow-up due to multiple organ failure and brain herniation. Our case suggests that the SAH-like findings on computed tomography scanning were not a new complication ("real" SAH) arising from the bee sting; rather, it was a pseudo-SAH related to prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
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