Spontaneous Intracerebral Bleed Post Snake Envenomation
Published: April 1, 2017 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2017/25095.9517
Girish Menon, Lakshman I Kongwad, Rajesh Parameshwaran Nair, Anmol Nagaraj Gowda
1. Professor and Head, Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
2. Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
3. Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
4. Neurosurgery Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Lakshman I Kongwad,
Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College, Madhav Nagar,
Manipal-576104, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
E-mail: rajeshnair39@yahoo.com
Snakebite envenomation is a commonly encountered emergency in tropical countries with potentially fatal complications. Life threatening neurosurgical complications are rare and infrequently documented in literature. We discuss the case of 28-year-old gentleman, managed successfully for an intracerebral haemorrhage following a viper bite and attempt to obviate some management dilemmas often encountered in viperine envenomation.
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