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Case Reports
. 1995;62(2):101-3.
doi: 10.1159/000196400.

Pulmonary damage due to paraquat poisoning through skin absorption

S A Papiris  1 , M A Maniati, V Kyriakidis, S H Constantopoulos
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Pulmonary damage due to paraquat poisoning through skin absorption

S A Papiris et al. Respiration. 1995.

Abstract

A case of recovery from acute respiratory insufficiency due to paraquat is described. A 57-year-old farmer developed breathlessness, high fever and interstitial infiltrates in the upper and middle lung fields few days after percutaneous paraquat poisoning with rapid evolution to pulmonary fibrosis. Anti-inflammatory drugs and antioxidants, were administered to the patient, though with a delay, with some improvement; the patient survived despite residual lung fibrosis. Paraquat lung, as confirmed by this paper, is not invariably fatal.

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