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Review
. 2020 Feb 18:6:2.
doi: 10.1186/s40794-020-0103-y. eCollection 2020.

The "wing-heeled" traveler

Taylor Kain  1 , Jordan Weinstein  1   2 , Aaron Thompson  3   4 , Andrea K Boggild  1   5
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Review

The "wing-heeled" traveler

Taylor Kain et al. Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines. .

Abstract

Intoxication syndromes may be travel acquired, and are related to intentional or accidental inhalational or percutaneous exposures or ingestions. Due to their myriad clinical presentations, initial differential diagnosis of such intoxications in returned travelers is broad, and typically requires detailed history and laboratory investigations to disentangle. We herein use a case-based clinical problem solving approach to illumination of a mercury intoxication syndrome, which presented in a 48-year-old VFR traveler to Guyana. Common clinical presentations, differential diagnoses, laboratory investigations, and therapeutic interventions are discussed.

Keywords: Ciguatera fish poisoning; Heavy metal intoxication; Nephropathy; Neuropathy; Skin bleaching.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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