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Case Reports
. 2015 Summer;6(3):180-3.

A case of methanol poisoning leading to prolonged respirator dependency with consequent blindness and irreversible brain damage

Ali Asghar Manuchehri  1 , Ebrahim Alijanpour  2 , Mohsen Daghmechi  2 , Naser Ghaeminan  3 , Seyed Hasan Abedi  1 , Novin Nikbakhsh  4 , Seyed Ali Mohammad Ghazi Mir Saeed  1 , Neda Amani  5
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A case of methanol poisoning leading to prolonged respirator dependency with consequent blindness and irreversible brain damage

Ali Asghar Manuchehri et al. Caspian J Intern Med. 2015 Summer.

Abstract

Background: Methanol is a colorless and poisonous liquid that is commonly used as an industrial and household solvent. Methanol poisoning is a rare but extremely hazardous form of in toxication that affects the central nervous system and causes visual disorder, drowsiness, seizures and coma.

Case presentation: A 29-years-old man with methanol intoxication presented with drowsiness and acidosis with subsequent brain hemorrhage requiring prolong mechanical ventilation resulted in persistent visual impairment and disequilibrium.

Conclusion: Prolonged mechanical ventilation in patients with methanol intoxication may be assouated with irreversible brain damage.

Keywords: Brain hemorrhage; Mechanical ventilation; Methanol intoxication; Vision loss.

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Figs. 1, 2
A: Large and symmetric edema in parenchymal of brain, foci hematoma intraparenchymal, subcortical frontal and occipital lobe bilaterally. B: Hematoma in putamen and right capsule
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Figs 3, 4
A: B: parenchymal atrophy of the right and left frontal lobes symmetrically, bilateral hypo density in the external capsule, left internal capsule and bilateral caudate and lateral ventricular dilatation were also seen
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