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ArticleSouth African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care2021

A case report of detecting subclinical coagulopathy in a patient with boomslang (Dipholidus typus) bite.

Mungela J Tambwe, Vidya Lalloo, Andreas Engelbrecht, Pholosho Pelle

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Article in South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mungela J TambweDepartment of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria. tambwejmu@gmail.com.
Vidya Lalloo
Andreas Engelbrecht
Pholosho Pelle
University of Pretoria · ZA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The boomslang (Dipholidus typus) has a predominantly haemotoxic venom. Because of the consumptive nature of the coagulopathy, signs and symptoms are usually delayed by up to 72 h after the bite. Traditional laboratory coagulation assays have a long turnaround time, by which time the patient's bleeding and clotting profile has changed. A 25-year-old male patient was bitten by a boomslang. Despite two normal laboratory coagulation assay results, a point-of-care rotational thromboelastometry showed low fibrinogen levels, leading to the administration of monovalent antivenom. This report highlights the value of point-of-care thromboelastometry in the care of patients with subclinical boomslang envenomation.

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Blood Coagulation DisordersColubridaeSnake BitesAdultAnimalsAntiveninsHumansMaleThrombelastographyAntiveninsboomslang bitehaemotoxic envenomationmonovalent antivenomrotationalsnake bitethromboelastometry (ROTEM)

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PMID34476966
PMCPMC8424712
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