Epidemiology, clinical presentation, treatment, and follow‐up of chronic mercury poisoning in China: a retrospective analysis [PDF]
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2021 Background There are no reports on the incidence of chronic mercury poisoning in a large population in China. This study investigated the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and follow-up of Chinese patients with chronic mercury poisoning ...
Sun Yawei +4 more
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Cases of acute mercury poisoning by mercury vapor exposure during the demolition of a fluorescent lamp factory [PDF]
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2017 Background In 2015, workers dismantling a fluorescent lamp factory in Korea were affected by mercury poisoning from exposure to mercury vapor. Case presentation Eighteen out of the 21 workers who participated in the demolition project presented with ...
Sang Yoon Do +6 more
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Assessment and management of elemental mercury poisoning-a case report. [PDF]
Clin Case Rep, 2017 We describe a patient with elemental mercury aspiration and retention in the appendix after elemental mercury ingestion. Conservative management was proved to be successful for the removal of the mercury from the appendix while we do not suggest ...
Bazoukis G +4 more
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Effects of Mercury Concentration on the Health and Safety of Oil and Gas Workers [PDF]
International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 2022 Introduction: The processing of crude oil is characterized by numerous hazards, which have significant health, safety, and environmental impacts on neighboring communities.
Suvarnaraju Palathoti +3 more
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Comprehensive Review Regarding Mercury Poisoning and Its Complex Involvement in Alzheimer's Disease. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2022 Mercury (Hg) is considered one of the most widespread toxic environmental pollutants, which seems to have multiple effects on organisms even at low concentrations.
Paduraru E +8 more
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Chronic Mercury Poisoning From Daily Cosmetics: Case Report and Brief Literature Review. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Chronic mercury poisoning from cosmetics is often misdiagnosed and mistreated due to atypical clinical presentations and high industrial standards and quality control of cosmetic products.
Wang Z, Fang X.
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Toxicology Communications, 2021 We reevaluate the treatment of mercury poisoning, incorporating recent advances in understanding of mercury toxicity and the mercury:selenium interaction.
Henry A. Spiller +2 more
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CHRONIC MERCURY POISONING [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1951 The most prominent symptoms of chronic mercury poisoning are erethism, tremor and stomatitis. The psychic disturbance known as erethism is the first of the symptoms to develop; it is a peculiar form of timidity most evident in the presence of strangers.
Donald Hunter +3 more
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The interwoven history of mercury poisoning in Ontario and Japan. [PDF]
CMAJ, 2017 The history of mercury poisoning among indigenous people in Canada is entangled with a mid-20th-century industrial incident in Minamata, Japan. There, in the mid-1950s, sightings of ataxic cats heralded signs of a bizarre neurologic condition.
Mosa A, Duffin J.
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Mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining equipment [PDF]
Radiology Case Reports, 2023 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining uses mercury to isolate gold from ore. Although uncommon in the United States, it is more common in poor and undeveloped countries.
Andrew Waack, BS +2 more
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