Pyopneumothorax following suicidal kerosene ingestion

Empyema following kerosene poisoning.

did not yield any organism. Child improved with ICD and antibiotics therapy without any sequale. An earlier study noticed empyema following kerosene poisoning and attributed it to aspiration of oral microorganisms and to impairment of pulmonary defence mechanism(3). Similar mechanism was also explained in other studies(4,5). Accidental kerosene poisoning continues to be a common childhood menac...

Suicidal and Accidental Digoxin Ingestion

Clinical and serum digoxin concentration data are presented for five cases of accidental or suicidal ingestion of large amounts of digoxin. Three patients, 20 years of age or less, were without previous evidence of heart disease and responded with the development of atrioventricular block or sino-atrial exit block, which was reversed in two instances by atropine. The third died with refractory ...

Suicidal ingestion of potassium permanganate.

BACKGROUND Potassium permanganate is used clinically as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. Ingestion of potassium permanganate may result in damage to the upper gastrointestinal tract. Burns and ulceration of the mouth, esophagus and stomach occur due to its action. Emergency endoscopy is useful to assess the severity of damage and also to guide management. METHODS We reported a patient pres...

Rapid chemical diagnosis of kerosene ingestion by NMR.

CLINICALCHEMISTRY,Vol. 38, No.4,1992 593 thus avoiding the risk of loss of bands, which is encountered when only a part of the gel is stained, #{149} The risk of inhibiting an enzyme activity, because of soaking the gel with the buffer used for the previous enzyme staining, is eliminated. We are now applying our method to other genetic polymorphisms in blood and are looking into the possibility...

Late residual pulmonary sequel following kerosene burns.