Death in an adolescent girl with methemoglobinemia and malaria

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 154-156

  Sankar, Jhuma ^a   Gupta, Anshul ^a   Pathak, Sunit ^a   Dubey, Nand K ^a  

^a DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Aniline dye exposure; Chloroquine; Malaria; Methemoglobinemia

Indexed keywords

ANILINE; ASCORBIC ACID; CHLOROQUINE; DYE; METHYLENE BLUE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYANIDE POISONING; CYANOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PAINT INDUSTRY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; METHYLENE BLUE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84859241758     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmr042     Document Type: Article

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