Epidemiological and clinical manifestations of patients hospitalized with brown recluse spider bite
| Autor: | Pavel Dyachenko, D. Rozenman, Michael Ziv |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Comorbidity Dermatology Thigh Lesion Spider Bites Epidemiology Prevalence medicine Animals Humans Child Envenomation Aged business.industry Spider bites Spiders Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Hospitalization Natural history Treatment Outcome Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Female medicine.symptom business Brown Recluse Spider |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. 20:1121-1125 |
| ISSN: | 1468-3083 0926-9959 |
| Popis: | Background Necrotic arachnidism represents a common health problem and standard treatments are usually safe and effective. Objective The aim of this study was to review documented Loxosceles species spider envenomations and identify the natural history of affected patients. Methods A retrospective single-centre study included 52 patients with necrotic arachnidism hospitalized in the dermatology department between 1997 and 2004. We examined the relationship between the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory parameters and degree of lesion severity, length of hospitalization and time to complete healing. Results The bites occurred predominantly in rural areas, 67% between April and August. Only 35% of the patients sought medical care within 24 h post bite. Most bites were of the extremities (67%). Time to complete healing ranged from 14 days to more than 8 weeks (mean, 4.8 weeks). A marked relationship was found between age, comorbidities, lesion severity and time to complete healing (P |
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