Aluminum toxicity due to intravenous injection of boiled methadone [21]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1210-1211

  Yong, Raymund L ^a   Holmes, Daniel T ^a   Sreenivasan, Gayatri M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DEFEROXAMINE; METHADONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALUMINUM BLOOD LEVEL; ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; CASE REPORT; CHELATION THERAPY; COORDINATION DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DYSARTHRIA; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MYOCLONUS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPEECH DISORDER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREMOR;

ADULT; ALUMINUM; ATAXIA; CHELATION THERAPY; DEFEROXAMINE; DYSARTHRIA; HUMANS; MALE; METHADONE; POISONING; SEIZURES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 33644981156     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc053341     Document Type: Letter

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