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Plasma Mercury during Prolonged Acute Renal Failure after Mercuric Chloride Ingestion

Department of Nephrology, The London Hospital, London E 1 1BB

I.M. House

Poisons Unit, New Cross Hospital, Avonley Road, London SE14 5ER

G.N. Volans

Poisons Unit, New Cross Hospital, Avonley Road, London SE14 5ER

F.J. Goodwin

Department of Nephrology, The London Hospital, London E 1 1BB

1 Serial measurements of plasma mercury were made in a patient with severe and prolonged acute renal failure due to poisoning with mercuric chloride.

2 An initial mercury concentration in whole blood of 1200 µg/l (6 µmol/l) was recorded, and recovery of renal function coincided with a fall in plasma mercury concentration to below 100 µg/l (0.5 µmol/l).

3 The case demonstrates that survival and recovery of renal function is possible despite very high concentrations of mercury in the blood and oliguric renal failure of nearly six weeks' duration.

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 2, No. 3, 535-537 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/096032718300200310


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