SEVERE ACUTE-RENAL-FAILURE INDUCED BY THE VENOM OF LONOMIA CATERPILLARS

Authors
BURDMANN EA ANTUNES I SALDANHA LB ABDULKADER RCMR
Citation
Ea. Burdmann et al., SEVERE ACUTE-RENAL-FAILURE INDUCED BY THE VENOM OF LONOMIA CATERPILLARS, Clinical nephrology, 46(5), 1996, pp. 337-339
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Urology & Nephrology
Journal title
Clinical nephrology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03010430
Volume
46
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
337 - 339
Database
ISI
SICI code
0301-0430(1996)46:5<337:SAIBTV>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
A case of a patient developing anuric acute renal failure and a hemorr hagic syndrome resembling disseminated intravascular coagulation after contact with Lonomia caterpillars is reported. Renal histology showed only mild changes consistent with renal ischemia, although the patien t never was hypotensive. The mechanisms of renal injury were obscure a nd might be related to transient glomerular ischemia due to microcircu lation fibrin deposition or to direct venom nephrotoxicity.