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Intravenous injection of elemental mercury: A report of two cases
Two cases of intravenous injection of elemental mercury are described in this report. One patient succumbed and the other remains asymptomatic two years after the surgical removal of all the injected mercury. Management of intravenous injection of elemental mercury (intended to be an aphrodisiac in these two cases) is discussed here and the need for surgical removal of all accessible mercury ha...
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sigmoid regions and occasionally in the caecum. It results from pressure necrosis of the colonic wall from impacted faeces. Constipation is the pre-eminent symptom in all cases and straining at stool the precipitating event. Drug-induced faecal impaction is becoming more prevalent and is not uncommon in opiate addicts. Both faecal impaction and perforation have been recently reported in renal t...
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We present the autopsy findings of a case of attempted suicide by self-administration of elemental mercury, resulting in mercury embolization to the heart and lungs. The person lived for 5 months afterward and subsequently died as a result of narcotic toxicity combined with loss of blood from an incised radial artery. A collection of metallic mercury droplets imbedded in a fibrous tissue granul...
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Sir,?With reference to my letter on intravenous administration of quinine in your issue of October, in which some very severe malarial infections had been successfully treated in this way, I have since had a case in which the injection proved fatal. I forward notes of the case so that the cases previously recorded may not be misleading. MrsB., European, 31, female, admitted on 20th September, 1...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.2017.v107i2.12046