PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT
PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT
Prague Medical Report is an English quarterly published multidisciplinary biomedical journal. Prague Medical Report was founded as Sborník lékařský in May 1885. The journal presents public primary scientific publications, short communications, casuistry, and reviews. It contains articles based on important specialised lectures and symposia.

PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT, Vol 122 No 3 (2021), 216–221

Splenic Rupture and Massive Hemoperitoneum Due to Coagulopathy after Atheris Viper Snakebite

Jiří Valenta, Zdeněk Stach, Eva Vagenknechtová, David Hoskovec

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2021.19
published online: 01. 10. 2021

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.

keywords: snakebite; Atheris viper; coagulopathy; splenic rupture; hemoperitoneum; splenectomy

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