Two Cases of Paraquat Poisoning from Kota, Rajasthan, INDIA

Paraquat (1,1′-dimethyl-4,4′-dipyridylium) is a broad spectrum liquid herbicide associated with both accidental and intentional ingestion, leading to severe and often fatal toxicity. Despite widespread availability, reports of herbicide poisoning from India are not common. Diagnosis is often difficu...

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Autores principales: Khosya, Surendra, Gothwal, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24826339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/652146
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description Paraquat (1,1′-dimethyl-4,4′-dipyridylium) is a broad spectrum liquid herbicide associated with both accidental and intentional ingestion, leading to severe and often fatal toxicity. Despite widespread availability, reports of herbicide poisoning from India are not common. Diagnosis is often difficult in the absence of proper history, nonspecific clinical features, and lack of diagnostic tests. We report two cases of fatal paraquat poisoning from a tertiary care hospital, Kota, Rajasthan, India.
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spelling pubmed-40100422014-05-13 Two Cases of Paraquat Poisoning from Kota, Rajasthan, INDIA Khosya, Surendra Gothwal, Sunil Case Rep Crit Care Case Report Paraquat (1,1′-dimethyl-4,4′-dipyridylium) is a broad spectrum liquid herbicide associated with both accidental and intentional ingestion, leading to severe and often fatal toxicity. Despite widespread availability, reports of herbicide poisoning from India are not common. Diagnosis is often difficult in the absence of proper history, nonspecific clinical features, and lack of diagnostic tests. We report two cases of fatal paraquat poisoning from a tertiary care hospital, Kota, Rajasthan, India. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4010042/ /pubmed/24826339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/652146 Text en Copyright © 2012 S. Khosya and S. Gothwal. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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