title: On the unsual hemorrhagic and necrotic activities caused by the rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus cumanensis) in a Venezuelan patient.
abstract: The hemorrhagic, necrotic and edematous effects observed in a 23-year-old patient from Lagunetica, Los Teques, state of Miranda, Venezuela, that was bitten by a common Venezuelan rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus cumanensi), were described. The patient was treated with polyvalente serum, antibiotics and autograft. This finding allows to suggest that the poison of some Venezuelan common rattlesnakes has a systemic effect on the skeletal muscle and on capillaries that generate edema, hemorragic phenomena and necrosis.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Tropical de la Universidad Central de Venezuela.
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yoshida-Kanashiro
authors.forename: Luis F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Navarrete
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Acosta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D017839:Crotalus; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012909:Snake Bites / Q000150:complications*