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Jiří Valenta1, Zdeněk Stach2, Eva Vagenknechtová3
1Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. jiri.valenta@vfn.cz.
Abstract:
Coagulopathy with defibrination is one of symptoms accompanying snakebite envenoming, where life-threatening complications such as massive bleeding and organ hematomas formation can occur. Here, we report a case of hemocoagulation failure due to bite by African Great Lakes bush viper Atheris nitschei with impossibility of specific treatment for absence of antivenom and its life-threatening complication: very rare and unexpected atraumatic splenic rupture with massive hemoperitoneum and necessity of urgent splenectomy.
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