Extracorporeal treatment for thallium poisoning: Recommendations from the EXTRIP workgroup

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1682-1690

  Ghannoum, Marc ^a   Nolin, Thomas D ^b   Goldfarb, David S ^b   Roberts, Darren M ^b   Mactier, Robert ^b   Mowry, James B ^b   Dargan, Paul I ^b   MacLaren, Robert ^b   Hoegberg, Lotte C ^b   Laliberté, Martin ^b   Calello, Diane ^b   Kielstein, Jan T ^b   Anseeuw, Kurt ^b   Winchester, James F ^b   Burdmann, Emmanuel A ^b   Bunchman, Timothy E ^b   Li, Yi ^b   Juurlink, David N ^b   Lavergne, Valery ^b   Megarbane, Bruno ^b   Gosselin, Sophie ^b   Liu, Kathleen D ^b   Hoffman, Robert S ^b   more..

^a Verdun Hospital   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; THALLIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DELPHI STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; EXTRACORPOREAL TREATMENT; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN BINDING; STEADY STATE; THALLIUM INTOXICATION; TOXICOKINETICS;

ANIMALS; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; POISONING; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALLIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867280848     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.01940212     Document Type: Article

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