%0 Journal Article %1 bandyopadhyay2013study %A Bandyopadhyay, Debasis %A Singha, Prasanta %D 2013 %E Ahmad, Tauseef %J Reviews of Progress %K Correlation Morbidity Mortality. Renal Viper bite failure %N 10 %T A STUDY OF ROLE OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS ON THE OUTCOME OF VIPERBITE – INDUCED ACUTE RENAL FAILURE AT A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL. %U http://reviewsofprogress.org/UploadedArticle/48.pdf %V 1 %X Background: In India Vipera russelli (Russell's viper), is responsible for a large number of snakebite cases 1 reaching 95% of envenomations in the State of Jammu. V. russelli also are frequently encountered in India and throughout south-east Asia. In Maharashtra State, in India, the annual incidence of severe envenomation is about 70 per 100000 inhabitants and the mortality rate is about 2.4 per 100000 per year 2. It has been reported that there are 5 million snake bites, resulting in 2.5 million envenoming, 125,000 deaths and perhaps three times that number of permanent sequelae in the world each year. The incidence of snake bite mortality is particularly high in Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Guinea. In India alone there may be as many as 50,000 snake bite deaths each year 3.It is well established that Viperid snake venoms induce renal failure 4,5,6,7 and especially most of the patients comes from the rural area. So in this perspective this study was important, as previously no such recorded data

@article{bandyopadhyay2013study, abstract = {Background: In India Vipera russelli (Russell's viper), is responsible for a large number of snakebite cases [1] reaching 95% of envenomations in the State of Jammu. V. russelli also are frequently encountered in India and throughout south-east Asia. In Maharashtra State, in India, the annual incidence of severe envenomation is about 70 per 100000 inhabitants and the mortality rate is about 2.4 per 100000 per year [2]. It has been reported that there are 5 million snake bites, resulting in 2.5 million envenoming, 125,000 deaths and perhaps three times that number of permanent sequelae in the world each year. The incidence of snake bite mortality is particularly high in Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Guinea. In India alone there may be as many as 50,000 snake bite deaths each year [3].It is well established that Viperid snake venoms induce renal failure [4,5,6,7] and especially most of the patients comes from the rural area. So in this perspective this study was important, as previously no such recorded data}, added-at = {2014-08-17T08:11:58.000+0200}, author = {Bandyopadhyay, Debasis and Singha, Prasanta}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/267770e81e67728b5da84dbd196e00130/sciencejournal}, editor = {Ahmad, Tauseef}, interhash = {5a30fd71c4dcce65674a42a4b9f0c4f8}, intrahash = {67770e81e67728b5da84dbd196e00130}, journal = {Reviews of Progress }, keywords = {Correlation Morbidity Mortality. Renal Viper bite failure}, month = {July}, number = 10, timestamp = {2014-08-17T08:11:58.000+0200}, title = {A STUDY OF ROLE OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS ON THE OUTCOME OF VIPERBITE – INDUCED ACUTE RENAL FAILURE AT A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL.}, url = {http://reviewsofprogress.org/UploadedArticle/48.pdf}, volume = 1, year = 2013 }