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Fatal Ethylene Glycol Intoxication
Clinical and forensic laboratories frequently have to face cases of severe intoxication from ethylene glycol, because of its wide availability, and thus its use as an additive in various housekeeping and commercial products such as anti-freezing agent, car batteries and solvents for dyes. The majority of ethylene glycol poisonings is related to suicide attempts (intentional ingestion) and to mi...
متن کاملMethanol and ethylene glycol intoxication.
Accidental or intentional ingestion of substances containing methanol and ethylene glycol can result in death, and some survivors are left with blindness, renal dysfunction, and chronic brain injury. However, even in large ingestions, a favorable outcome is possible if the patient arrives at the hospital early enough and the poisoning is identified and appropriately treated in a timely manner. ...
متن کاملComment on treatment methods for ethylene glycol intoxication.
S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 , V O L . 7 2 , N O 7 © Van Zuiden Communications B.V. All rights reserved. To the Editor, We were very interested in the article by Rietjens et al. regarding antidotal therapies utilised in the treatment of ethylene glycol and methanol intoxication. We were especially interested in the cost analysis of ethanol versus fomepizole treatment. In the United States (US), th...
متن کاملThe Role of Hemodialysis and Fomepizole in Ethylene Glycol Intoxication
Ethylene glycol is one of the most common toxic alcohol ingestions requiring hemodialysis for treatment. With the FDA approval in 1997 of fomepizole (4-methylpyrazole), the indications for hemodialysis in addition to fomepizole for ethylene glycol poisoning have been examined in recent articles and case reports. Fomepizole, a competitive inhibitor of alcohol dehydrogenase, binds to the same sit...
متن کاملCerebral CT of lethal ethylene glycol intoxication with pathologic correlation.
The effect of various toxic substances on the brain has often been found to be relatively characteristic of, if not specific for, a given toxin. Carbon monoxide poisoning, for instance, has a predilection for the globus pallidus and cerebral white matter [1] . Methanol intoxication has an affinity for the putamen [2] . While the CT findings are not specific, insofar as other entities may produc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 1970
ISSN: 2369-1778,1911-1606
DOI: 10.22374/cjgim.v11i1.112