Potassium permanganate toxicity: A rare case with difficult airway management and hepatic damage

Potassium permanganate (KMnO(4)) is rarely used for suicidal attempt. Its ingestion can lead to local as well as systemic toxicities due to coagulation necrosis and damage, caused by free radicals of permanganate. We recently managed a case of suicidal ingestion of KMnO(4) in a lethal dose. She had...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Vijay Kumar, Bansal, Abhishek, Kumar, Ranjeet, Kumawat, Bhanwar Lal, Mahajan, Parul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4271282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25538417
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.146318

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