Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Chronic lead poisoning (CLP) is a rare cause of abdominal pain and is common in young children, in whom the incidence is higher than it is in adults. As the symptoms of CLP are nonspecific, misdiagnoses or missed diagnoses often occur, especially in sporadic cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We...

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Autores principales: Yang, Yuan, Li, Shujun, Wang, Hong, Liu, Morong, Tuo, Biguang, Wu, Huichao, Deng, Shili, Liu, Xuemei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7557016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33054779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-020-01482-x
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author Yang, Yuan
Li, Shujun
Wang, Hong
Liu, Morong
Tuo, Biguang
Wu, Huichao
Deng, Shili
Liu, Xuemei
author_facet Yang, Yuan
Li, Shujun
Wang, Hong
Liu, Morong
Tuo, Biguang
Wu, Huichao
Deng, Shili
Liu, Xuemei
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description BACKGROUND: Chronic lead poisoning (CLP) is a rare cause of abdominal pain and is common in young children, in whom the incidence is higher than it is in adults. As the symptoms of CLP are nonspecific, misdiagnoses or missed diagnoses often occur, especially in sporadic cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 28-year-old young man who was misdiagnosed with renal colic due to sudden acute abdominal pain. After a detailed medical history and physical examination, other possible causes were excluded, CLP was finally diagnosed, and he recovered after chelation treatment. CONCLUSION: Abdominal pain is a very common clinical symptom in adults, which has many causes. We should be vigilant against chronic poisoning, especially CLP. Detailed diagnosis and physical examination are crucial in early diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-75570162020-10-15 Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature Yang, Yuan Li, Shujun Wang, Hong Liu, Morong Tuo, Biguang Wu, Huichao Deng, Shili Liu, Xuemei BMC Gastroenterol Case Report BACKGROUND: Chronic lead poisoning (CLP) is a rare cause of abdominal pain and is common in young children, in whom the incidence is higher than it is in adults. As the symptoms of CLP are nonspecific, misdiagnoses or missed diagnoses often occur, especially in sporadic cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 28-year-old young man who was misdiagnosed with renal colic due to sudden acute abdominal pain. After a detailed medical history and physical examination, other possible causes were excluded, CLP was finally diagnosed, and he recovered after chelation treatment. CONCLUSION: Abdominal pain is a very common clinical symptom in adults, which has many causes. We should be vigilant against chronic poisoning, especially CLP. Detailed diagnosis and physical examination are crucial in early diagnosis and treatment. BioMed Central 2020-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7557016/ /pubmed/33054779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-020-01482-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Yang, Yuan
Li, Shujun
Wang, Hong
Liu, Morong
Tuo, Biguang
Wu, Huichao
Deng, Shili
Liu, Xuemei
Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature
title Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort chronic lead poisoning induced abdominal pain and anemia: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7557016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33054779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-020-01482-x
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