Snake bite: An unusual cause of ischaemic stroke

Mohan V Bhojaraja, Mukhyaprana Prabhu, Weena Stanley, Shah Sanket, Varun Kumar Nachimuthu Marimuthu, Sushma Thimmaiah Kanakalakshmi

Abstract

Snake bite continues to be one of the major and potential contributors for morbidity and mortality in India. Intracranial haemorrhage causing neurological deficits is a known entity due to snake bite but presentation with infarction is rare. The authors report a case of a healthy middle aged female who presented within hours of envenomation with altered sensorium and evaluation revealed left hemiplegia with deranged coagulation profile and multiple ischaemic infarcts instead of haemorrhage as a consequence of vasculotoxic envenomation due to viper bite.
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