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Treatment of patients with ethylene glycol or methanol poisoning: focus on fomepizole

Ethylene glycol (EG) and methanol are responsible for life-threatening poisonings. Fomepizole, a potent alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) inhibitor, is an efficient and safe antidote that prevents or reduces toxic EG and methanol metabolism. Although no study has compared its efficacy with ethanol, fomepi...

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Autor principal: Mégarbane, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27147840
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OAEM.S5346