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Clinical Spectrum of Hemolytic Anemia in Loxoscelism: Report of Two Cases Highlighting Variable Severity and Management. [PDF]

Case Rep Hematol
Loxoscelism can cause local as well as systemic manifestations. Hematologic complications of brown recluse spider venom can be life‐threatening. Here, we present two cases of loxoscelism‐mediated hemolysis that highlight the variable clinical presentations and treatment options available based on severity and pathophysiology of hemolysis.
Al-Sadi A, Adhikari A, Jawarneh I, Ali E, Shrestha A.   +4 more
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Renal Autotransplantation After Yang-Monti Neoureter Procedure: Surgical Case Report and Brief Literature Review. [PDF]

Case Rep Urol
Purpose Ureteral strictures are a well‐documented pathology in urology, commonly resulting from congenital anomalies, iatrogenic injury, or other acquired conditions such as infection, trauma, or radiation. While ischemic and nonischemic strictures are recognized, bilateral idiopathic ureteral strictures remain rare, particularly when associated with ...
Anderson RM, Chang A, Baas W.
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Uso de acupuntura, moxabustão, açúcar e rifamicina em ferida aberta de cão: Relato de caso

Pubvet, 2021
A cicatrização de feridas cutâneas em cães é um processo visto rotineiramente. Atualmente, vários métodos de tratamento e cicatrização de feridas por segunda intenção têm sido estudados, de forma a obter uma cicatrização rápida e de qualidade, inclusive ...
Guilherme Machado Hölzlsauer, Hudson Felipe Porto de Abreu, Daniele Amaro Pereira, Andréa Cristina Scarpa Bosso Holzlsauer   +3 more
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Protective Effectiveness of an Immunization Protocol Against the Toxic Effects of Loxosceles intermedia Venom in Rabbits

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Loxosceles spp. (brown spiders) bites are responsible for the development of a syndrome consisting mainly of dermonecrotic lesions, and also systemic effects.
Ana Luísa Soares de Miranda, Sabrina de Almeida Lima, Ana Flávia Machado Botelho, Marco Túlio Gomes Campos, Camila Eckstein, João Carlos Minozzo, Carlos Delfin Chávez-Olórtegui, Benito Soto-Blanco   +7 more
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Lesión dermo-hemorrágica en un canino compatible con loxoscelismo. Relato de un caso

Ciencia Veterinaria, 2022
Los accidentes provocados por arañas del género Loxosceles son importantes en Medicina Veterinaria por la gravedad de la lesión que ocasionan y las posibles complicaciones sistémicas que pueden llevar a la muerte del animal.
María de los Angeles Bruni, Diego Hernandez, Claudio Ruiz, Nahuel Marega   +3 more
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Venom of the Brazilian spider Sicarius ornatus (Araneae, Sicariidae) contains active sphingomyelinase D: potential for toxicity after envenomation. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
BACKGROUND:The spider family Sicariidae includes two genera, Sicarius and Loxosceles. Bites by Sicarius are uncommon in humans and, in Brazil, a single report is known of a 17-year old man bitten by a Sicarius species that developed a necrotic lesion ...
Priscila Hess Lopes, Rogério Bertani, Rute M Gonçalves-de-Andrade, Roberto H Nagahama, Carmen W van den Berg, Denise V Tambourgi   +5 more
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Loxoscelism: Advances and Challenges in the Design of Antibody Fragments with Therapeutic Potential

Toxins, 2020
Envenoming due to Loxosceles spider bites still remains a neglected disease of particular medical concern in the Americas. To date, there is no consensus for the treatment of envenomed patients, yet horse polyclonal antivenoms are usually infused to ...
Sabrina Karim-Silva, Alessandra Becker-Finco, Isabella Gizzi Jiacomini, Fanny Boursin, Arnaud Leroy, Magali Noiray, Juliana de Moura, Nicolas Aubrey, Philippe Billiald, Larissa M. Alvarenga   +9 more
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Production and Functional Evaluation of Anti-Loxosceles Sera Raised by Immunizations of Rabbits with Mutated Recombinant Phospholipases-D

Biomedicines, 2022
Loxoscelism is the clinical condition triggered after the bite of spiders of the genus Loxosceles. The main species involved in accidents in South America are L. intermedia, L. laeta, and L. gaucho.
Bruno Cesar Antunes, Nayanne Louise Costacurta Polli, Pedro Henrique de Caires Schluga, Thais Pereira da Silva, Ana Carolina Martins Wille, Rosangela Locatelli-Dittrich, Giovana Scuissiatto de Souza, Fernando Hitomi Matsubara, João Carlos Minozzo, Andrea Senff-Ribeiro, Luiza Helena Gremski, Silvio Sanches Veiga   +11 more
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Advances in the reconstruction of the spider tree of life: A roadmap for spider systematics and comparative studies

Cladistics, Volume 39, Issue 6, Page 479-532, December 2023., 2023
Abstract In the last decade and a half, advances in genetic sequencing technologies have revolutionized systematics, transforming the field from studying morphological characters or a few genetic markers, to genomic datasets in the phylogenomic era. A plethora of molecular phylogenetic studies on many taxonomic groups have come about, converging on, or
Siddharth Kulkarni, Hannah M. Wood, Gustavo Hormiga   +2 more
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Loxosceles gaucho venom-induced acute kidney injury--in vivo and in vitro studies. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BACKGROUND: Accidents caused by Loxosceles spider may cause severe systemic reactions, including acute kidney injury (AKI). There are few experimental studies assessing Loxosceles venom effects on kidney function in vivo.
Rui V Lucato, Regina C R M Abdulkader, Katia C Barbaro, Glória E Mendes, Isac Castro, Maria A S F Baptista, Patrícia M Cury, Denise M C Malheiros, Nestor Schor, Luis Yu, Emmanuel A Burdmann   +10 more
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