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...

CASEREPORT. A previously healthy twenty-six year old woman presented to casualty about one hour after self injection with metallic mercury using her boyfriend's insulin syringe. The mercury had been taken from an old thermometer in an attempt at suicide following an argument. She smoked 20 cigarettes a day; there was no previous medical history. On examination there was some localised inflammat...

Many petrophysical properties (e.g. permeability, electrical resistivity etc.) of tight rocks are very stress sensitive. However, most mercury injection measurements are made using an instrument that does not apply a confining pressure to the samples. Here we further explore the implications of the use and analysis of data from mercury injection porosimetry or mercury capillary pressure measure...

liquid at room temperature. It tends to form perfectly shaped minute spheres when in contact with air or water because of its high surface tension. Due to such a physical property, the injection of mercury into soft tissue produces a characteristic radiographic appearance. We report a case of mercury foreign bodies within the soft tissue of the arm with imaging findings, including MRI findings.

The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of different means of depleting glutathione (GSH) in the kidneys and liver on the renal and hepatic accumulation and disposition of a nontoxic dose of inorganic mercury. Renal and hepatic disposition of mercury were evaluated 1 hr after the intravenous administration of a 0.5 mumol/kg dose of mercuric chloride in control rats and ...

Influences of biliary ligation and systemic depletion of glutathione (GSH) or modulation of GSH status on the disposition of a low, non-nephrotoxic i.v. dose of inorganic mercury were evaluated in rats in the present study. Renal and hepatic disposition, and the urinary and fecal excretion, of inorganic mercury were assessed 24 h after the injection of a 0.5-micromol/kg dose of mercuric chlorid...

A simple, rapid and reliable method was developed for the determination of total mercury in biological samples. Samples were solubilized using tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH). The organically bound mercury was cleaved and converted to inorganic mercury by on-line addition of KMnO4. The decomposed mercury together with inorganic mercury originally present in samples was determined by flow i...