Acute compartment syndrome leading to fasciotomy, severe morbidity and long-term disabilities following Sri Lankan Green pit viper (Peltopelor trigonocephalus) envenomation.

Green pit viper (Peltopelor trigonocephalus) is a medically important endemic snake in Sri Lanka. Its envenoming commonly causes local effects such as pain, swelling, blistering, and lymphadenopathy and rarely causes venom-induced consumption coagulopathy as a systemic effect. Despite its frequent encounters in estates, commonly tea and cinnamon plantations, reports of envenoming are rare and limited to nine reports in the literature.