Treatment of adult lead poisoning with D-penicillaminedoi:10.1515/dmpt-2019-0003Maryam PaeeziNasim ZamaniHossein Hassanian-MoghaddamShahin ShadniaNaghmeh ZamaniVahid ChaleshiAmir Ali MafiDrug Metabolism and Personalized Therapy
We report a case here, presenting with colicky abdominal pain receiving symptomatic treatment initially; lead poisoning was confirmed following the estimation of blood lead levels. Discussion The consumption of unbranded herbal medicines as a causative factor for lead poisoning was confirmed by high lead...
The cause of a drug overdose is either by accidental overuse or by intentional misuse. Accidental overdoses result from either a young child or an adult with impaired mental abilities swallowing a medication left within their grasp. An adult (especially elderly persons or people taking many medicat...
Of paramount importance for both the idiopathic kidney stone formers, and patients with PH is treatment with anti-lithogenic substances, for example, citrate and magnesium. Alkaline citrate increases the urinary pH and the citrate excretion (pH values > 7.5 should be avoided, as calcium-phosphate ...
Fig. 5. Mean vulnerability index score among adult 2015–2017 NSDUH participants by sexual identity. Higher vulnerability scores were associated with elevated odds of cocaine, crack, heroin, and methamphetamine use, and OxyContin misuse (Table 4). This was particularly pronounced for crack and heroin...
Methods Data Sources, Study Population, and Outcomes We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adult patients who were discharged from the ED following treatment for opioid overdose between October 1, 2011, and September 30, 2016. We used an administrative claims database, the Optum Clinformatics...
They also bring out the fact that sodium thiosulphate is curative in any form of poisoning due to arsenic, mercury, lead or bismuth. In the discussion following the report of Dennie and McBride, it seems evident that sodium thiosulphate has had an extensive clinical trial and that it has a ...
The availability of treatment resources and antidotes in Palestinian hospitals was not adequate except for stabilisation resources. The availability of such resources acts as a marker for the level of readiness of hospital EDs in Palestine for the management of acute toxic exposure and poisoning. The...
“just one of those things”, but I resolved to use that background in science to try and figure out whether there was an actual physical explanation for it. Accordingly, I tried to discover as much as I could about sexual development in the unborn child, and the kinds of things that ...
The 2016 ASCO publication “Management of Chronic Pain in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline” states that NSAIDs and acetaminophen may be prescribed for the relief of chronic pain and functional improvement if there are no serious drug ...