The Mt. Diwata study on the Philippines 2000 - Treatment of mercury intoxicated inhabitants of a gold mining area with DMPS (2,3-Dimercapto-1-propane-sulfonic acid, Dimaval®)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 307, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 71-82

  Bose O'Reilly S ^a   Drasch, G ^a   Beinhoff, C ^c   Maydl, S ^a   Vosko, M R ^b   Roider, G ^a   Dzaja, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Neurological University Clinic   (Slovakia)

^c UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dimercapto propane sulfonic acid; DMPS; Environmental burden; Gold mining; Human; Inorganic mercury; Mercury; Mercury intoxication; Methylmercury; Neuro pschological tests; Neurological examination; Occupational burden; Philippines; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CHELATION; MINING; NEUROLOGY; POLLUTION;

CHELATING AGENTS;

GOLD MINES;

CHELATING AGENT; GOLD; MERCURY; UNITHIOL;

GOLD MINE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POISONING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY BURDEN; BRADYKINESIA; CHELATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSDIADOCHOKINESIA; DYSMETRIA; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MERCURIALISM; MINING; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NYSTAGMUS; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN ALLERGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASTE DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTIDOTES; CHILD; GOLD; HAIR; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHILIPPINES; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; UNITHIOL;

PHILIPPINES;

ATAXIA; MIMIA;

EID: 0242584439     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00547-8     Document Type: Article

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