A Sickening Tale

N Engl J Med. 2018 Jul 5;379(1):75-80. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcps1716775.

Authors

Greta Lindenmayer¹, Kerry Hoggett¹, Jim Burrow¹, Diane Howard¹, Henrik Falhammar¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital (G.L., J.B., D.H., H.F.), and the Menzies School of Health Research (H.F.), Darwin, NT, the Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA (K.H.), and the Western Australian Poison Information Centre, Nedlands, and the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, Westmead (K.H.) - all in Australia; and the Departments of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, and Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (H.F.).

PMID: 29972758
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps1716775

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Adult
Arsenic / analysis*
Arsenic Poisoning / complications
Arsenic Poisoning / diagnosis*
Arsenic Poisoning / drug therapy
Chelation Therapy
Diagnosis, Differential
Diarrhea / etiology*
Fresh Water / chemistry*
Hallucinations / etiology
Hepatitis / etiology
Humans
Hypotension / etiology
Male
Northern Territory
Pancytopenia / etiology
Sensation Disorders / etiology
Succimer / adverse effects
Succimer / therapeutic use
Vomiting / etiology*
Water Pollutants, Chemical / adverse effects
Water Pollutants, Chemical / analysis

Substances

Water Pollutants, Chemical
Succimer
Arsenic