Viscero-hemolytic loxoscelism: A torpid form of presentation of the illness
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https://doi.org/10.35563/rmp.v14i1.632Keywords:
brown recluse spider, sphingomyelinase, biteAbstract
Loxoscelism is the pathology due to the bite of the brown recluse spider. The main enzyme involved is sphingomyelinase D and it trigger a cutaneous form, with the classic liveloid plate with subsequent evolution to a visco-hemolytic form, with systemic and eventually lethal involvement. This being the normal order of presentation of the disease, we present the case of a patient with this condition, but whose lesion did not follow the classic evolution, rapidly developing the visco-haemolytic form with renal and hepatic involvement; but with favourable evolution.
This form of presentation of loxoscelism goes out of the normal framework of the evolution of the pathology and therefore the importance of the article.
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