Clinical features, laboratory findings and imaging appearances of venous diethylene glycol poisoning in patients with liver disease

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2315-2320

  Luo, Ming Yue ^a   Lin, Bing Liang ^a   Gao, Zhi Liang ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diethylene glycol; Liver disease; Poisoning; Vena

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CREATININE; DIETHYLENE GLYCOL; HEMOGLOBIN; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; UREA;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANURIA; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OLIGURIA; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BENZOPYRANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ETHYLENE GLYCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 70350608076     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.19.023     Document Type: Article

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