Careful differential diagnosis is important because symptoms of ethylene glycol poisoning are similar to those of other intoxicants. Early, aggressive treatment with appropriate therapies, such as ethanol therapy, hemodialysis, vitamin cofactors, and antidotal agents, is necessary to prevent permanent ...
Ethylene glycol poisoning (ingestion) Haff disease after eating Buffalo fish Muscle breakdown after severe muscle injury or limb compression (common in chronic alcoholics) and other causes of increased excretion of myoglobin in urine (myoglobinuria) Sickle cell anemia and other causes of blood hemolysis...
Dialysis—which was first used to treat human patients in 1945—replaces or supplements the action of the kidneys in a person suffering fromacuteor chronicrenal failureor from poisoning by diffusible substances, such as aspirin, bromides, or barbiturates. Blood is diverted from an artery, usually...
Poisoning:Barbiturates, ethylene glycol, lithium, and methyl alcohol are some of the important poisons removed effectively by dialysis. In addition, hypercalcaemia, hyperuricaemia, hypothermia and Reye’s syndrome are treated with variable success by dialytic support. Dialysis- Related Complications Hypo...