Hair Loss: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning

In clinical practice, thallium poisoning is very hard to diagnose, because it is a very uncommon disease and its clinical manifestations are extremely complicated. In the present study, we investigated a case of a 53-year-old man who was hospitalized for persistent stabbing pain in the abdomen and l...

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Autores principales: Yang, Guifang, Li, Changluo, Long, Yong, Sheng, Lijuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6038659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30046496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1313096
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author Yang, Guifang
Li, Changluo
Long, Yong
Sheng, Lijuan
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Long, Yong
Sheng, Lijuan
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description In clinical practice, thallium poisoning is very hard to diagnose, because it is a very uncommon disease and its clinical manifestations are extremely complicated. In the present study, we investigated a case of a 53-year-old man who was hospitalized for persistent stabbing pain in the abdomen and lower extremities for 20 days. Physical examination revealed diffuse alopecia of the scalp. The final diagnosis of thallium poisoning was confirmed based on high blood and urine thallium levels. The patient was cured by an oral administration of Prussian blue combined with hemoperfusion and continuous veno-venous hemofiltration.
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spelling pubmed-60386592018-07-25 Hair Loss: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning Yang, Guifang Li, Changluo Long, Yong Sheng, Lijuan Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report In clinical practice, thallium poisoning is very hard to diagnose, because it is a very uncommon disease and its clinical manifestations are extremely complicated. In the present study, we investigated a case of a 53-year-old man who was hospitalized for persistent stabbing pain in the abdomen and lower extremities for 20 days. Physical examination revealed diffuse alopecia of the scalp. The final diagnosis of thallium poisoning was confirmed based on high blood and urine thallium levels. The patient was cured by an oral administration of Prussian blue combined with hemoperfusion and continuous veno-venous hemofiltration. Hindawi 2018-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6038659/ /pubmed/30046496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1313096 Text en Copyright © 2018 Guifang Yang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yang, Guifang
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Hair Loss: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning
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title_full Hair Loss: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning
title_fullStr Hair Loss: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning
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title_short Hair Loss: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning
title_sort hair loss: evidence to thallium poisoning
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6038659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30046496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1313096
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