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Treatment of An Acute Severe Cadmium Poisoning Patient Combined with Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndromes by Integrated Chinese and Western Medicines: A Case Report

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Zhou YS and Zeng RX drafted this manuscript; Zhang MZ supervised article quality; Guo LH made critical revision of the manuscript and contributed to the rationalization of the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Li-heng Guo.

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests. None of the authors received funding from the relevant drug manufacturers in this research.

Supported by the CHEN Ke-ji Academic Thought Inheritance Studio (No. 201461) and the SHI Zai-xiang Academic Thought Inheritance Studio (No. 201461)

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Zhou, Ys., Zeng, Rx., Zhang, Mz. et al. Treatment of An Acute Severe Cadmium Poisoning Patient Combined with Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndromes by Integrated Chinese and Western Medicines: A Case Report. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 26, 853–856 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-020-3089-4

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