Methemoglobinemia associated with loxoscelism Meta-hemoglobinemia associada ao loxoscelismo

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Orlando C. de O. Barreto, Domingos M. de Cillo, Kimiyo Nonoyama, Luci C. Antonio, Pasquale Morena, João Luis C. Cardoso
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1990
• Subjects: Loxoscelism; Methemoglobinemia; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Gaucho
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651990000100001; https://doaj.org/article/8373ed14c5cd40a9a9f55e987adf290a

In twenty five patients who presented the cutaneous form of loxoscelism, serum haptoglobin and lactic dehydrogenase, erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase, methemoglobin, bilirubin and reticulocytes were investigated after bite. No hemolysis was...