How to join PubMed Commons JAMA. 1981 Oct 9;246(15):1698-700. Subacute carbon monoxide poisoning. Another great imitator. Grace TW, Platt FW. Abstract The illnesses of two patients with characteristic symptoms of subacute carbon monoxide poisoning were misdiagnosed initially. This resulted in the needless exposure of one patient and two relatives to a toxic environment. The cherry-red color of ...

PURPOSE Recent data demonstrate that the mortality rate from carbon monoxide poisoning has declined over the past 2 decades. It is not known whether this decrease in mortality is reflective of the total burden of carbon monoxide poisoning. This study sought to examine trends in other potential indicators of the incidence of carbon monoxide poisoning in the United States. BASIC PROCEDURES Publ...

Carbon monoxide can produce several nonspecific symptoms and can mimic several diseases. Most of the signs and symptoms are due to hypoxia, which affects mainly the brain. The most significant neurologic and psychiatric manifestations of carbon monoxide poisoning are seen as subacute or late sequelae, often following a period of complete recovery from an acute episode. There is a possible inter...

Carbon monoxide poisoning is an enigmatic illness. The symptoms are often non-specific or masked by an exacerbation of an underlying illness, such as congestive heart failure, that has been triggered by carbon monoxide inhalation. The effects can range from mild, annoying symptoms relieved by removal of the source to severe morbidity with profound central nervous system dysfunction, acute compl...

carbon monoxide (co) poisoning, though with different sources, is one of the most deadly emergencies in all countries. co can threaten men's life by several paths especially cardiac complications, which can mimic other cardiac problems such as myocardial infarction. the objective of this study was to determine ecg findings and serum troponin i levels in co poisoned patients. in this analytical ...

INTRODUCTION Carbon monoxide poisoning is a very common cause of death in accidental, suicidal, or homicidal cases throughout the world. Fingernail bed manifestation is reported in survivors of carbon monoxide poisoning. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year-old Caucasian woman was exposed to carbon monoxide when she was sleeping alone in her one-bedroom apartment; fortunately, the beeps from her First...

Carbon monoxide is a nonirritant, odorless, colorless gas. Its effects are prominent in organs most sensitive to oxygen deprivation, such as the heart, brain, and kidney. Although less frequently, an association between thromboembolic events and carbon monoxide poisoning has been shown in the literatures. In this case, we report a case of atrial thrombus associated with carbon monoxide poisoning.

background: this toxicological investigation involves a report on the death of four ‎occupants of a sport utility vehicle on one of the major busy federal roads of nigeria ‎where they were held for up to three hours in a traffic jam while the car was steaming.‎ methods: autopsy was executed using the standard procedure and toxicological ‎analysis was done using simple spectrophotometric method ...

conclusions in patients without clear signs of myocardial infarction, even mild co poisoning was associated with quantifiable circulating levels of hs-ctnt when tnt was measured using a highly sensitive assay in the current study patients. plasma levels of the hs-tnt and ck-mb assays were not correlated with the cohb levels in the current study patients. results the mean age of the patients was...

the aim of this study was to define the electrocardiogram (ecg) changes following the moderate to severe co intoxication in rats, and also evaluating the effect of erythropoietin (epo) on observed cardiac disturbances. the growing literature on erythropoietin effect on cardiac ischemia led us to question its effect on cardiotoxicity due to the carbon monoxide poisoning. wistar rats were exposed...