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A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans
Iranian soldiers were attacked with chemical bombs, rockets and artillery shells 387 times during the 8-years war by Iraq (1980–1988). More than 1,000 tons of sulfur mustard gas was used in the battlefields by the Iraqis against Iranian people. A high rate of morbidities occurred as the result of th...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23351810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2008-2231-20-51 |
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author | mansour Razavi, Seyed Salamati, Payman Saghafinia, Masoud Abdollahi, Mohammad |
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description | Iranian soldiers were attacked with chemical bombs, rockets and artillery shells 387 times during the 8-years war by Iraq (1980–1988). More than 1,000 tons of sulfur mustard gas was used in the battlefields by the Iraqis against Iranian people. A high rate of morbidities occurred as the result of these attacks. This study aimed to evaluate the delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard gas on Iranian victims. During a systematic search, a total of 193 (109 more relevant to the main aim) articles on sulfur mustard gas were reviewed using known international and national databases. No special evaluation was conducted on the quality of the articles and their publication in accredited journals was considered sufficient. High rate of morbidities as the result of chemical attacks by sulfur mustard among Iranian people occurred. Iranian researchers found a numerous late complications among the victims which we be listed as wide range of respiratory, ocular, dermatological, psychological, hematological, immunological, gastrointestinal and endocrine complications, all influenced the quality of life of exposed victims. The mortality rate due to this agent was 3%. Although, mortality rate induced by sulfur mustard among Iranian people was low, variety and chronicity of toxic effects and complications of this chemical agent were dramatic. |
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spelling | pubmed-35559922013-01-31 A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans mansour Razavi, Seyed Salamati, Payman Saghafinia, Masoud Abdollahi, Mohammad Daru Review Article Iranian soldiers were attacked with chemical bombs, rockets and artillery shells 387 times during the 8-years war by Iraq (1980–1988). More than 1,000 tons of sulfur mustard gas was used in the battlefields by the Iraqis against Iranian people. A high rate of morbidities occurred as the result of these attacks. This study aimed to evaluate the delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard gas on Iranian victims. During a systematic search, a total of 193 (109 more relevant to the main aim) articles on sulfur mustard gas were reviewed using known international and national databases. No special evaluation was conducted on the quality of the articles and their publication in accredited journals was considered sufficient. High rate of morbidities as the result of chemical attacks by sulfur mustard among Iranian people occurred. Iranian researchers found a numerous late complications among the victims which we be listed as wide range of respiratory, ocular, dermatological, psychological, hematological, immunological, gastrointestinal and endocrine complications, all influenced the quality of life of exposed victims. The mortality rate due to this agent was 3%. Although, mortality rate induced by sulfur mustard among Iranian people was low, variety and chronicity of toxic effects and complications of this chemical agent were dramatic. BioMed Central 2012-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3555992/ /pubmed/23351810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2008-2231-20-51 Text en Copyright ©2012 Razavi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article mansour Razavi, Seyed Salamati, Payman Saghafinia, Masoud Abdollahi, Mohammad A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans |
title | A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans |
title_full | A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans |
title_fullStr | A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans |
title_full_unstemmed | A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans |
title_short | A review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in Iranian veterans |
title_sort | review on delayed toxic effects of sulfur mustard in iranian veterans |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23351810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2008-2231-20-51 |
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