myoglobinuria/headache

A 35-year-old man ingested food contaminated with lindane, an insecticide containing almost pure gamma hexachlorocyclohexane. Grand mal seizures and severe acidemia developed rapidly. The seizures recurred for nearly 2 hours, then ceased. In addition, the patient had muscle weakness and pain,

Five patients who had injected intravenous (i.v.) phenmetrazine or methamphetamine developed marked prostration resembling septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, rhabdomyolysis with myoglobinuria, and azotemia. Soon after injection, four noted chills, fever, sweats, nausea, and

A 43-year-old female recreational scuba diver presented to the emergency department 1 hour after a rapid, uncontrolled ascent. Her presentation included progressing confusion, slow and slurred speech, and complaints of headache and hypesthesia over her forearms and anterior thighs bilaterally.

OBJECTIVE To describe demographic, geographical and clinical features of envenoming by the rough-scaled snake (RSS) (Tropidechis carinatus). METHODS Prospective cohort study of RSS snakebite victims, recruited between January 2004 and December 2008, as part of the Australian Snakebite Project. RSS

Electrolytes are essential for basic life functioning such as maintaining electrical neutrality in the cells, generation, and conduction of action potentials in the nerves and muscles. Sodium, potassium, and chloride are the significant electrolytes along with magnesium, calcium, phosphate, and

Familial renal hypouricemia is a hereditary disease characterized by extraordinary high renal uric acid clearance and is associated with acute renal failure (ARF). An 18-year-old sumo wrestler developed ARF after anaerobic exercise. Several hours after the exercise, he had a pain in the loins with

Two clinical cases of patients who survived after numerous attacks of Africanized bees (600 and 1500 bee stings, respectively) are reported. Clinical manifestation was characterized by diffuse and widespread edema, a burning sensation in the skin, headache, weakness, dizziness, generalized

Influenza, an acute, usually self-limited, febrile illness of global importance, appears virtually every year and infects the respiratory tract either sporadically, as a local outbreak, or as a widespread epidemic. The most severe outbreak known, the 1918 to 1919 influenza A pandemic, was