Publications by authors named "Kalum Somaratna"

Merrem's humpnosed viper bite is known to cause incoagulable blood, acute renal failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, Raynaud's phenomenon and gangrene of the distal limb. Venom-induced consumptive coagulopathy (VICC) is the commonest coagulopathy that occurs following snake envenomation which is characterised by prolonged clotting times. In a small proportion of patients with VICC, microangiopathy is also seen.

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Background: Dengue fever is an endemic illness in the tropics with early and post infectious complications affecting multiple systems. Though neurological sequelae including mononeuropathy, encephalopathy, transverse myelitis, polyradiculopathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome , optic neuropathy and oculomotor neuropathy have been reported in medical literature, the abducens nerve despite its notoriety in cranial neuropathies in a multitude of condition due to its long intracranial course had not been to date reported to manifest with lateral rectus paralysis following dengue.

Case Presentation: A previously well 29 year old male with serologically confirmed dengue hemorrhagic fever developed symptomatic right lateral rectus palsy during the critical phase of the illness, which persisted into convalescence and post convalescence with proven deficit on Hess screen.

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