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- Mercury remains a significant health risk due to its ability to accumulate in the body and cause diverse, often misleading symptoms.
- A case study highlights severe mercury vapor poisoning in a chloralkali plant worker, leading to critical respiratory issues and quadriparesis.
- Successful treatment involved prolonged mechanical ventilation along with medications such as penicillamine and spironolactone.
Article Abstract
Objectives: Despite restrictions, mercury continues to pose a health concern. Mercury has the ability to deposit in most parts of the body and can cause a wide range of unspecific symptoms leading to diagnostic mistakes.
Methods And Results: We report the case of severe mercury vapour poisoning after occupational exposure in a chloralkali plant worker that resulted in life-threatening respiratory failure, pneumomediastinum and quadriparesis.
Conclusions: Prolonged mechanical ventilation and treatment with penicillamine and spironolactone was used with successful outcome.
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