Survival after severe acute chromic acid poisoning complicated with renal and liver failure

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 711-715

  Barešić, Marko ^a   Gornik, Ivan ^a   Radonić, Radovan ^a   Zlopaša, Ozrenka ^a   Gubarev, Nina ^a   Gašparović, Vladimir ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Chromic acid; Liver and renal failure; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHROMIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATININE; METRONIDAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE; UREA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CONTINUOUS HEMODIALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NAUSEA; PERITONITIS; SURVIVAL; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHROMATES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 67650092686     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1943     Document Type: Article

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