Common adder bite to the tongue causing life threatening toxicity from airway compromise.
We illustrate the acute phase and development of symptoms in a 24-year-old man following a European Common Viper bite to the tongue.
Hoegberg
Lotte C G
LC
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, The Danish Poison Information Centre, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. lhoe0021@bbh.regionh.dk <lhoe0021@bbh.regionh.dk>
Jessen
Casper L
CL
Lambertsen
Karin
K
Stensballe
Jakob
J
D000328:Adult; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000139:chemically induced; D008297:Male; D012909:Snake Bites / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D014059:Tongue / Q000187:drug effects*; D014139:Tracheostomy; D014757:Viper Venoms / Q000633:toxicity*; D017819:Viperidae; D055815:Young Adult
D014757:Viper Venoms