Open AccessClinical performance of a new prediction rule of systemic loxoscellism. case report
Author(s) -
Rafael Pichardo-Rodríguez,
Marcos Saavedra Velazco,
Cesar Enrique Sánchez Alvarez,
Juan-Jesús Bracamonte-Hernández,
Abel Aldave Visurraga,
Oscar Emilio Ruiz Franco
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de la facultad de medicina humana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2308-0531
pISSN - 1814-5469
DOI - 10.25176/rfmh.v21i4.3956
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , emergency department , systemic therapy , intensive care medicine , systemic risk , surgery , financial crisis , cancer , psychiatry , breast cancer , economics , macroeconomics
Systemic or cutaneous-visceral loxoscelism is the most severe clinical presentation of loxoscelism. Currently there is no validated laboratory diagnostic method that allows us to confirm the presence of this disease in the face of arachneism. However, there is a clinical prediction rule (CPR), which allows us to predict the evolution of a bite towards a systemic condition and which would be useful in emergency rooms. We present the case of a woman who developed the systemic picture of loxoscelism to whom a new CPR was applied for the early detection of systemic loxoscelism, presenting adequate performance for early evaluation in emergency services.