An Atypical Presentation of Formic Acid Poisoning

Although formic acid (FA) poisoning is rare, it is usually fatal. Many FA poisoning cases commonly involve rubber plantation workers in which these workers ingest FA accidentally or with suicidal intentions. This is a case presentation of FA poisoning by a 73-year-old man. Additionally, the patient’...

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Autores principales: Vyata, Vishruth, Durugu, Satya, Jitta, Sahas Reddy, Khurana, Shriya, Jasti, Jaswanth Rao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32391233
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7988
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author Vyata, Vishruth
Durugu, Satya
Jitta, Sahas Reddy
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description Although formic acid (FA) poisoning is rare, it is usually fatal. Many FA poisoning cases commonly involve rubber plantation workers in which these workers ingest FA accidentally or with suicidal intentions. This is a case presentation of FA poisoning by a 73-year-old man. Additionally, the patient’s old age likely contributed to his severe prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-72053632020-05-08 An Atypical Presentation of Formic Acid Poisoning Vyata, Vishruth Durugu, Satya Jitta, Sahas Reddy Khurana, Shriya Jasti, Jaswanth Rao Cureus Internal Medicine Although formic acid (FA) poisoning is rare, it is usually fatal. Many FA poisoning cases commonly involve rubber plantation workers in which these workers ingest FA accidentally or with suicidal intentions. This is a case presentation of FA poisoning by a 73-year-old man. Additionally, the patient’s old age likely contributed to his severe prognosis. Cureus 2020-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7205363/ /pubmed/32391233 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7988 Text en Copyright © 2020, Vyata et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32391233
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7988
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