Blue vitriol poisoning: A 10-year experience in a tertiary care hospital

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 197-201

  Naha, Kushal ^a   Saravu, Kavitha ^a   Shastry, Barkur Ananthakrishna ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Gut and Hepatotoxicity; Liver; Metabolic

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; COPPER SULFATE; DIMERCAPROL; DIURETIC AGENT; EGG WHITE; MANNITOL; METHEMOGLOBIN; METHYLENE BLUE; PENICILLAMINE; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUE VITRIOL INTOXICATION; BLUE VITRIOL POISONING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOLYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; PALLOR; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH LAVAGE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTIDOTES; COPPER SULFATE; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; INDIA; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; POISONING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84857767322     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2012.660572     Document Type: Article

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