Multi-organ Dysfunction Syndrome with Dual Organophosphate Pesticides Poisoning

Organophosphate (OP) pesticide self-poisoning is common in developing countries. Poisoning with dual OP compounds is rare. Multi-organ dysfunction after OP poisoning has a high mortality rate. We report the case of a 27-year-old man who developed multi-organ dysfunction syndrome with fatal outcome a...

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Autores principales: Mishra, Ajay, Pandya, Himanshu V., Dave, Nikhil, Mehta, Manan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24403738
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6580.121682
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author Mishra, Ajay
Pandya, Himanshu V.
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description Organophosphate (OP) pesticide self-poisoning is common in developing countries. Poisoning with dual OP compounds is rare. Multi-organ dysfunction after OP poisoning has a high mortality rate. We report the case of a 27-year-old man who developed multi-organ dysfunction syndrome with fatal outcome after intentional ingestion of 50:50 mixture of two OP compounds, dichlorvos and profenofos.
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spelling pubmed-38774962014-01-08 Multi-organ Dysfunction Syndrome with Dual Organophosphate Pesticides Poisoning Mishra, Ajay Pandya, Himanshu V. Dave, Nikhil Mehta, Manan Toxicol Int Case Report Organophosphate (OP) pesticide self-poisoning is common in developing countries. Poisoning with dual OP compounds is rare. Multi-organ dysfunction after OP poisoning has a high mortality rate. We report the case of a 27-year-old man who developed multi-organ dysfunction syndrome with fatal outcome after intentional ingestion of 50:50 mixture of two OP compounds, dichlorvos and profenofos. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3877496/ /pubmed/24403738 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6580.121682 Text en Copyright: © Toxicology International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877496/
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