Citation

Menon G, Kongwad LI, Nair RP, Gowda AN. J. Clin. Diagn. Res. 2017; 11(4): PD03-PD04.

Affiliation

Neurosurgery Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, JCDR Prepublishing)

DOI

10.7860/JCDR/2017/25095.9517

PMID

28571206

PMCID

PMC5449852

Abstract

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.

Language: en

Keywords

Decompression; Haematotoxic venom; Intraparenchymal bleed; Viperine envenomation