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A description of the fluoride overfeed in Hooper Bay, Alaska, that resulted in the first reported death due to fluoride toxicity caused by drinking water from a community water system.
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Acute fluoride toxicity. Pathophysiology and management.
Acute intoxication with inorganic fluoride disrupts numerous physiological systems. As a potent acid it acts corrosively on the skin and mucous membranes, producing severe burns. As the most electronegative element it tightly binds many cations essential to homeostasis, producing, for example, profound hypocalcaemia and resultant inhibition of normal blood coagulation.
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The manipulation of potassium efflux during fluoride intoxication: implications for therapy.
Based on findings in 2 fluoride-toxic patients, it was suspected that hyperkalemia played a clinically important role in the etiology of sudden death from fluoride poisoning. Using fluoridated human erythrocytes as an in vitro model, it was confirmed that fluoride produced a marked potassium efflux from intact cells. Further, neither
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Fluoride in dental products: safety considerations
This review summarizes the nature of acute fluoride toxicity, its time-course, and the fluoride doses that are involved. The generally accepted "certainly lethal dose" range for 70 kg adults, i.e., from 5 to 10 g of sodium fluoride or from 32 to 64 mgfluoride/kg, is discussed. Based on recent case reports of fluoride-induced fatalities, it is concluded
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[Analysis on clinical characteristics of 316 patients with hydrofluoric acid burns].
Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics of patients with hydrofluoric acid (HF) burns. Methods: Clinical data of 316 patients with HF burns admitted to Zhejiang Quhua Hospital from January 2004 to December 2016 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were divided into non and mild poisoning group (NMP, n=157), moderate poisoning group (MP,
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An outbreak of fatal fluoride intoxication in a long-term hemodialysis unit
OBJECTIVE: To determine the cause of an outbreak of acute illness and death in a long-term hemodialysis unit. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort and case-control study of patients receiving hemodialysis and a laboratory study of a model deionization system to purify water for hemodialysis. SETTING: An outpatient hemodialysis unit of a university hospital. PATIENTS:
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