Toxic Brain Injury with Nitrobenzene Poisoning

Acute methemoglobinemia secondary to nitrobenzene ingestion is a rare but well-known clinical entity. It is extremely important to identify such patients as rapid and effective management with methylene blue and other supportive measures will often save these lives. We present a rare and unfortunate...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Akshay, Bhavsar, Chintan, Aggarwal, Praveen, Jamshed, Nayer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904926
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_271_16
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author Kumar, Akshay
Bhavsar, Chintan
Aggarwal, Praveen
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description Acute methemoglobinemia secondary to nitrobenzene ingestion is a rare but well-known clinical entity. It is extremely important to identify such patients as rapid and effective management with methylene blue and other supportive measures will often save these lives. We present a rare and unfortunate case of a girl who developed acute toxic brain injury following nitrobenzene ingestion and succumbed.
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spelling pubmed-55903892017-09-13 Toxic Brain Injury with Nitrobenzene Poisoning Kumar, Akshay Bhavsar, Chintan Aggarwal, Praveen Jamshed, Nayer Int J Appl Basic Med Res Case Report Acute methemoglobinemia secondary to nitrobenzene ingestion is a rare but well-known clinical entity. It is extremely important to identify such patients as rapid and effective management with methylene blue and other supportive measures will often save these lives. We present a rare and unfortunate case of a girl who developed acute toxic brain injury following nitrobenzene ingestion and succumbed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5590389/ /pubmed/28904926 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_271_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590389/
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