Clinical characteristics of snake envenomation-related acute kidney injury in South Korea.

ABSTRACT: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of bites by Viperidae snakes. The main venomous snakes in South Korea are members of the Viperidae family, but there is limited information on snake-bite induced AKI in South Korea. Therefore, we investigated snake envenomation-related AKI and the performance of surrogate baseline creatinine to diagnose true AKI. This retrospective, case-control study divided 71 patients with baseline serum creatinine into two groups according to the development of envenomation-related AKI determined based on Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcome Classification. The incidence of AKI was 14.1% with 10% having stage-3 AKI. During hospitalization, the AKI group did not develop venom-induced consumption coagulopathy more frequently than did the non-AKI group

SUBMITTER: Moon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11461617 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature