Delayed ethylene glycol poisoning presenting with abdominal pain and multiple cranial and peripheral neuropathies: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Baldwin, Fiona ^a   Sran, Hersharan ^a  

^a ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLIZINE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; INFUSION FLUID; PARACETAMOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGITATION; ANION GAP; ANURIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BABINSKI REFLEX; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLURRED VISION; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DEHYDRATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXTUBATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HICCUP; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTOXICATION; INTUBATION; LIMB WEAKNESS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OLIGURIA; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TENDON REFLEX; TRACHEOSTOMY; URETHRAL CATHETER; VOMITING;

EID: 77954673031     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-4-220     Document Type: Article

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