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Re: Care of patients who are worried about mercury poisoning from dental fillings.

INTRODUCTION Public concern about adverse health effects from mercury exposure from dental amalgams remains a high-profile issue. Patients with nonspecific neuropsychiatric symptoms may incorrectly attribute their complaints to mercury poisoning, and some alternative medical providers diagnose mercury toxicity using nonvalidated tests or without testing at all. CASE REPORT We report the case ...

Ethylene Glycol Poisoning; an Unusual Cause of Hyperglycemia: A Case Report

Background:Poisoning with ethylene glycol (EG) can be fatal even if appropriate treatments are delivered. EG poisoning usually causes central nervous system depression, cardiovascular dysfunction, metabolic acidosis and acute renal failure (ARF). Case Report:A 33-year-old man was referred to the emergency department with reduced consciousness and dyspnea of four-hour duration due to unknown rea...

Comment on "Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning: a Case Series in North Iran"

Dear Editor,  I read with great interest the brief report entitled "Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning: A Case Series in North Iran" presented by Nosrati et al. and published recently in your journal (1). I have a question from authors and also a suggestion regarding aluminum phosphide (AlP) poisoning- related studies. I would like to ask authors how they validate the study results, since it is not...

Validity and cost-effectiveness of diagnostic procedures in CS2 poisoning.

To determine relatively useful diagnostic procedures of carbon disulfide (CS2) poisoning in terms of validity and cost-effectiveness, several diagnostic tests are evaluated on 1,552 people by prevalence ratio (exposed/nonexposed), dose-response relationship, sensitivity and specificity, and the cost of the tests. Several symptoms with high kappa indices are found to be useful in various combina...