Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning

Mercury is a toxic heavy metal and occurs in organic and inorganic forms. Inorganic mercury includes elemental mercury and mercury salts. Mercury salts are usually white powder or crystals, and widely used in indigenous medicines and folk remedies in Asia. Inorganic mercury poisoning causes acute ki...

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Autores principales: Dhanapriya, J., Gopalakrishnan, N., Arun, V., Dineshkumar, T., Sakthirajan, R., Balasubramaniyan, T., Haris, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27194836
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.164230
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author Dhanapriya, J.
Gopalakrishnan, N.
Arun, V.
Dineshkumar, T.
Sakthirajan, R.
Balasubramaniyan, T.
Haris, M.
author_facet Dhanapriya, J.
Gopalakrishnan, N.
Arun, V.
Dineshkumar, T.
Sakthirajan, R.
Balasubramaniyan, T.
Haris, M.
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description Mercury is a toxic heavy metal and occurs in organic and inorganic forms. Inorganic mercury includes elemental mercury and mercury salts. Mercury salts are usually white powder or crystals, and widely used in indigenous medicines and folk remedies in Asia. Inorganic mercury poisoning causes acute kidney injury (AKI) and gastrointestinal manifestations and can be life-threatening. We describe a case with unknown substance poisoning who developed AKI and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Renal biopsy showed acute tubular necrosis. Later, the consumed substance was proven to be mercuric chloride. His renal failure improved over time, and his creatinine normalized after 2 months.
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spelling pubmed-48622672016-05-18 Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning Dhanapriya, J. Gopalakrishnan, N. Arun, V. Dineshkumar, T. Sakthirajan, R. Balasubramaniyan, T. Haris, M. Indian J Nephrol Case Report Mercury is a toxic heavy metal and occurs in organic and inorganic forms. Inorganic mercury includes elemental mercury and mercury salts. Mercury salts are usually white powder or crystals, and widely used in indigenous medicines and folk remedies in Asia. Inorganic mercury poisoning causes acute kidney injury (AKI) and gastrointestinal manifestations and can be life-threatening. We describe a case with unknown substance poisoning who developed AKI and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Renal biopsy showed acute tubular necrosis. Later, the consumed substance was proven to be mercuric chloride. His renal failure improved over time, and his creatinine normalized after 2 months. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4862267/ /pubmed/27194836 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.164230 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Journal of Nephrology 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Gopalakrishnan, N.
Arun, V.
Dineshkumar, T.
Sakthirajan, R.
Balasubramaniyan, T.
Haris, M.
Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning
title Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning
title_full Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning
title_fullStr Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning
title_full_unstemmed Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning
title_short Acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning
title_sort acute kidney injury and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to mercuric chloride poisoning
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27194836
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.164230
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