OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and risk factors of acute kidney injury in children with Russells viper envenomation using Acute Kidney Injury Network definition and classification system. METHODS A prospective observational study recruiting 61 subjects managed as per the National Snakebite Protocol. RESULTS 45.9% of envenomed children had acute kidney injury. The median (IQR) of the m...

During a 6-mo period, 2,055 brown recluse spiders, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik, were collected in a 19th-century-built, currently occupied home in Lenexa, KS. We conservatively estimate that at least 400 of these spiders were large enough to cause envenomation. Additional collections from more typically infested homes in Missouri and Oklahoma in 2001 yielded 45 and 30 brown recluse sp...

BACKGROUND Thrombosis and coagulopathy are the commonest hematological manifestations of envenomation of Russell's viper venom (RVV). Factor X is activated by a factor X-activating enzyme from Russell's viper venom (RVV-X) to start the coagulation cascade. We established an animal model with local ischemic effects induced by RVV. We tried to treat RVV envenomation with antiplatelets and anticoa...

In Algeria scorpion envenomation represents a real public health problem with a population at risk of scorpion stings estimated at 68% of the national population. A total of 903, 461 scorpion sting cases and 1996 deaths were recorded by health services between 1991 and 2012. The physical-geographic and climate conditions make the province of Naama a conducive environment for scorpion species an...