Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report

We report the case of a 56-year-old white man who presented at the Emergency Department for evaluation of dark-red urine. Rapid development of acute renal failure and haemolytic anaemia initially elicited the hypothesis of a haemolytic-uremic syndrome. A previous exposure to a gas mixture containing...

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Autores principales: Correia, Nuno, Carvalho, Catarina, Friões, Fernando, Araújo, José P, Almeida, Jorge, Azevedo, Ana
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918480
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7768
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author Correia, Nuno
Carvalho, Catarina
Friões, Fernando
Araújo, José P
Almeida, Jorge
Azevedo, Ana
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Carvalho, Catarina
Friões, Fernando
Araújo, José P
Almeida, Jorge
Azevedo, Ana
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description We report the case of a 56-year-old white man who presented at the Emergency Department for evaluation of dark-red urine. Rapid development of acute renal failure and haemolytic anaemia initially elicited the hypothesis of a haemolytic-uremic syndrome. A previous exposure to a gas mixture containing arsenic and copper was later recognized as the probable aetiology while other differential diagnoses were excluded. Chelating treatment was promptly initiated before laboratorial confirmation of arsenic and copper poisoning. Renal and haematological recovery was gradually observed and the patient survived with no sequelae.
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spelling pubmed-27693702009-11-16 Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report Correia, Nuno Carvalho, Catarina Friões, Fernando Araújo, José P Almeida, Jorge Azevedo, Ana Cases J Case report We report the case of a 56-year-old white man who presented at the Emergency Department for evaluation of dark-red urine. Rapid development of acute renal failure and haemolytic anaemia initially elicited the hypothesis of a haemolytic-uremic syndrome. A previous exposure to a gas mixture containing arsenic and copper was later recognized as the probable aetiology while other differential diagnoses were excluded. Chelating treatment was promptly initiated before laboratorial confirmation of arsenic and copper poisoning. Renal and haematological recovery was gradually observed and the patient survived with no sequelae. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2769370/ /pubmed/19918480 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7768 Text en © 2009 Correia et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Correia, Nuno
Carvalho, Catarina
Friões, Fernando
Araújo, José P
Almeida, Jorge
Azevedo, Ana
Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report
title Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report
title_full Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report
title_fullStr Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report
title_short Haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report
title_sort haemolytic anaemia secondary to arsenic poisoning: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918480
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7768
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