Letter: Pyrimethamine poisoning.

Digit and letter alexia in carbon monoxide poisoning☆

This study examined a 24-year-old patient with delayed encephalopathy, who was admitted to hospital with complaints of headache and visual impairment 1 week after acute carbon monoxide poisoning. The results of a visual field assessment, electroencephalography and head magnetic resonance imaging indicated damage to the cerebral cortex. After a 2-week treatment period, the patient had recovered ...

Letter to the Editor Regarding the Article “ Suicidal Death by Nicotine Poisoning ” by Jun et al .

The recent report by Jun et al. [1] is valuable in that it highlighted nicotine as a lethal toxic chemical, which can be used for suicide. A 20-year-old man who was a non-smoker and had no disease history was found dead in a head-down position on his bed in his room in the morning by his mother. Through meticulous investigation, death scene investigators found a drug bottle outside the window (...

Drug Poisoning: Poisoning by Antidepressants

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Pyrimethamine inhibits renal secretion of creatinine.

The mechanism of increased serum creatinine after administration of pyrimethamine and dapsone was evaluated for six healthy volunteers. Serum parameters, urine sediment, and clearances of creatinine, inulin, and para-aminohippurate were assessed prior to and 28 h after the ingestion of a single, combined dose of 100 mg of pyrimethamine and 200 mg of dapsone. In a second series, the same renal f...

Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Combination in Congenital Toxoplasmosis.