Chronic Carbon Disulfide Poisoning and Microangiopathia

Carbon disulfide exposure estimate and prevalence of chronic diseases after carbon disulfide poisoning-related occupational diseases

Background In Korea, Carbon disulfide (CS2) toxicity was an important social problem from the late 1980s to the early 1990s but there have been few large-scale studies examining the prevalence of diseases after CS2 exposure discontinuance. So we investigated past working exposure to CS2 characteristics from surviving ex-workers of a rayon manufacturing plant including cumulative CS2 exposure in...

Brain MRI Findings of Carbon Disulfide Poisoning

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the findings of brain MRI in patients with carbon disulfide poisoning. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ninety-one patients who had suffered carbon disulfide poisoning [male:female=87:4; age, 32-74 (mean 53.3) years] were included in this study. To determine the extent of white matter hyperintensity (Grade 0-V) and lacunar infarction, T2-weighted MR imaging of the brain was perform...

Experimental studies on carbon disulfide poisoning.

Cerebellar atrophy as a delayed manifestation of chronic carbon disulfide poisoning.

A 70-year-old man developed a slowly progressive cerebellar syndrome after having been exposed to carbon disulfide (CS2) in a viscose rayon plant for 27 years. Ataxia, dysmetria, dysarthria and adiadochokinesia appeared 7 years after retirement from work (at age 54), and were later accompanied by cognitive deterioration, dysmnesia, spatio-temporal disorientation, emotional lability, and paranoi...

Chronic Poisoning by Bisulphide of Carbon

seem worthy of the attention of the Society, as they are apparently the first described in this country. The subjects of it worked in the "curing-house" in one of the rubber-works here, their duties requiring them to dissolve chloride of sulphur in bisulphide of carbon, and to superintend the working of the machine for vulcanizing the cloth. They are thus almost continuously exposed to a more o...