Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)

A case of acute poisoning with nitrobenzene is presented where clinical evaluation and timely management, with repeated intravenous methylene blue helped to save a life. It is important to take care of the secondary cycling of nitrobenzene from body stores in patients presenting late, after heavy ex...

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Autores principales: Saxena, Hema, Prakash Saxena, Anand
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661357
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63635
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spelling pubmed-29007452010-07-26 Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent) Saxena, Hema Prakash Saxena, Anand Indian J Anaesth Case Report A case of acute poisoning with nitrobenzene is presented where clinical evaluation and timely management, with repeated intravenous methylene blue helped to save a life. It is important to take care of the secondary cycling of nitrobenzene from body stores in patients presenting late, after heavy exposure. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2900745/ /pubmed/20661357 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63635 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)
title Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)
title_full Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)
title_fullStr Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)
title_full_unstemmed Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)
title_short Acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)
title_sort acute methaemoglobinaemia due to ingestion of nitrobenzene (paint solvent)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661357
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