Accidental Chronic Poisoning with Methotrexate; Report of Two Cases

Methotrexate has been used widely in dermatology, oncology and rheumatology fields. However, methotrexate-induced mucocutaneous lesions may occur in rare cases. In this case presentation, we report two cases of accidental poisoning with methotrexate. They had accidentally used methotrexate instead o...

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Autores principales: Bidaki, Reza, Kian, Mojgan, Owliaey, Hamid, Babaei Zarch, Mojtaba, Feysal, Masoud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5585837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28894782
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Owliaey, Hamid
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description Methotrexate has been used widely in dermatology, oncology and rheumatology fields. However, methotrexate-induced mucocutaneous lesions may occur in rare cases. In this case presentation, we report two cases of accidental poisoning with methotrexate. They had accidentally used methotrexate instead of digoxin. This case report emphasizes that early diagnosis and appropriate management is critical in order to improve outcome.
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spelling pubmed-55858372017-09-11 Accidental Chronic Poisoning with Methotrexate; Report of Two Cases Bidaki, Reza Kian, Mojgan Owliaey, Hamid Babaei Zarch, Mojtaba Feysal, Masoud Emerg (Tehran) Case Report Methotrexate has been used widely in dermatology, oncology and rheumatology fields. However, methotrexate-induced mucocutaneous lesions may occur in rare cases. In this case presentation, we report two cases of accidental poisoning with methotrexate. They had accidentally used methotrexate instead of digoxin. This case report emphasizes that early diagnosis and appropriate management is critical in order to improve outcome. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017 2017-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5585837/ /pubmed/28894782 Text en © Copyright (2017) Shahid Beheshti University ofMedical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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