A Case of Acute Renal Failure after Application of Mercury to the Skin.
- Author:
Young Ook EUM
1
;
Hyun KIM
;
Hui Seok JUNG
;
Kyung Suck CHEOI
;
Mi Yun LEE
;
Won Yik LEE
;
Jun Seong SON
Author Information
1. Departments of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine Cheongju, Chungbuk, Korea. jsson@chungbuk.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Mercury intoxications;
Acute renal failure;
Hepatotoxicity
- MeSH:
Acute Kidney Injury*;
Anti-Bacterial Agents;
Creatinine;
Diuretics;
Eating;
Exanthema;
Female;
Fever;
Hemodiafiltration;
Humans;
Metals, Heavy;
Skin*;
Tremor
- From:Korean Journal of Nephrology
2006;25(6):1019-1023
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Mercury is one of the heavy metals that cause intoxications. Mercury can cause muscular tremor, psychic irritability, renal toxicity and so on. Mercury intoxications usually occur chrough chronic respiratory ingestion. We describe a case in that a woman had applicated inorganic mercury to her whole body and developed mercury intoxications which can be characterized by the whole body skin rash, fever, acute renal failure and the hepatotoxicity appeared. We managed the patient with diuretics, antibiotics and continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration. On the 6th hospital day, serum creatinine was normalized. Since then, the skin rash and hepatotoxicity were gradually alleviated.
