Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis

OBJECTIVES: Despite restrictions, mercury continues to pose a health concern. Mercury has the ability to deposit in most parts of the body and can cause a wide range of unspecific symptoms leading to diagnostic mistakes. METHODS AND RESULTS: We report the case of severe mercury vapour poisoning afte...

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Autores principales: Smiechowicz, Jakub, Skoczynska, Anna, Nieckula-Szwarc, Agata, Kulpa, Katarzyna, Kübler, Andrzej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5347491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28321305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17695472
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author Smiechowicz, Jakub
Skoczynska, Anna
Nieckula-Szwarc, Agata
Kulpa, Katarzyna
Kübler, Andrzej
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description OBJECTIVES: Despite restrictions, mercury continues to pose a health concern. Mercury has the ability to deposit in most parts of the body and can cause a wide range of unspecific symptoms leading to diagnostic mistakes. METHODS AND RESULTS: We report the case of severe mercury vapour poisoning after occupational exposure in a chloralkali plant worker that resulted in life-threatening respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and quadriparesis. CONCLUSIONS: Prolonged mechanical ventilation and treatment with penicillamine and spironolactone was used with successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-53474912017-03-20 Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis Smiechowicz, Jakub Skoczynska, Anna Nieckula-Szwarc, Agata Kulpa, Katarzyna Kübler, Andrzej SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report OBJECTIVES: Despite restrictions, mercury continues to pose a health concern. Mercury has the ability to deposit in most parts of the body and can cause a wide range of unspecific symptoms leading to diagnostic mistakes. METHODS AND RESULTS: We report the case of severe mercury vapour poisoning after occupational exposure in a chloralkali plant worker that resulted in life-threatening respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and quadriparesis. CONCLUSIONS: Prolonged mechanical ventilation and treatment with penicillamine and spironolactone was used with successful outcome. SAGE Publications 2017-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5347491/ /pubmed/28321305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17695472 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Kulpa, Katarzyna
Kübler, Andrzej
Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis
title Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis
title_full Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis
title_fullStr Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis
title_full_unstemmed Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis
title_short Occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis
title_sort occupational mercury vapour poisoning with a respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and severe quadriparesis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5347491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28321305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17695472
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