Renal failure and neonatal death following snakebite during pregnancy: a case report

• Published in: Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: G. K. Adam, S. M. Hussein, I. Adam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SciELO 2006
• Subjects: snake; renal; pregnancy; perinatal; Sudan; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Toxicology. Poisons; RA1190-1270; Zoology; QL1-991; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-91992006000400011; https://doaj.org/article/41610fc2612042149c3bdb1acb20aadf

A thirty-five-year-old Sudanese woman (gravida 4, para 3), at 34 weeks gestational age, presented with snakebite in her right leg. Examination of the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems revealed no abnormalities. Her blood urea was 58 mg/dl; creatinine, 2.6 mg/dl; whole blood clotting time, 5:35 minutes. The patient was diagnosed as having acute renal failure and was then managed conservatively. She received polyvalent antivenom serum intravenously. On the next day, she delivered prematurely and the baby passed away due to respiratory distress. There was no postpartum bleeding and the patient's clotting time was 5:30 minutes. She was discharged from the hospital after 7 days when her clinical, biochemical and hematological parameters returned to normal values without dialysis.