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A New Treatment Approach for Acute Propanil Poisoning: A Case Report

Propanil is a widely used herbicide in agriculture and is also an important cause of poisoning in Sri Lanka. Incidence is around 2% and is commonly reported as self-poisoning. Although it is classified as an agent with low to medium toxicity, severe poisoning can cause lethal outcome and death espec...

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Autores principales: Arunpriyandan, Vaishnavi, KT, Sundaresan, Umakanth, Maheswaran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9337783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35915699
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26416
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author Arunpriyandan, Vaishnavi
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description Propanil is a widely used herbicide in agriculture and is also an important cause of poisoning in Sri Lanka. Incidence is around 2% and is commonly reported as self-poisoning. Although it is classified as an agent with low to medium toxicity, severe poisoning can cause lethal outcome and death especially when there is a limited medical facility. We describe a case of severe Propanil poisoning who was successfully treated in a peripheral hospital with available facilities.
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spelling pubmed-93377832022-07-31 A New Treatment Approach for Acute Propanil Poisoning: A Case Report Arunpriyandan, Vaishnavi KT, Sundaresan Umakanth, Maheswaran Cureus Internal Medicine Propanil is a widely used herbicide in agriculture and is also an important cause of poisoning in Sri Lanka. Incidence is around 2% and is commonly reported as self-poisoning. Although it is classified as an agent with low to medium toxicity, severe poisoning can cause lethal outcome and death especially when there is a limited medical facility. We describe a case of severe Propanil poisoning who was successfully treated in a peripheral hospital with available facilities. Cureus 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9337783/ /pubmed/35915699 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26416 Text en Copyright © 2022, Arunpriyandan et al. https://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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Arunpriyandan, Vaishnavi
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Umakanth, Maheswaran
A New Treatment Approach for Acute Propanil Poisoning: A Case Report
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title_short A New Treatment Approach for Acute Propanil Poisoning: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9337783/
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