| epidemiology and clinical effects of hump-nosed pit viper (genus: hypnale) envenoming in sri lanka. | hump-nosed pit vipers of genus hypnale are the commonest cause of snake bite in sri lanka. although there are many reports of local effects, coagulopathy and acute kidney injury, it remains unclear how frequent these clinical effects are and therefore the medical importance of this snake genus. the genus has been recently revised to include hypnale hypnale from sri lanka and western ghats of southern india, and the two endemic species to sri lanka, hypnale zara and hypnale nepa. this was a prosp ... | 2013 | 23127899 |