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Recurrent methemoglobinemia after acute dapsone intoxication in a child
J G Linakis1, M Shannon, A Woolf
1Program in Clinical Toxicology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Journal of Emergency Medicine
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
Dapsone is a synthetic sulfone increasingly used in the treatment of a wide variety of dermatologic disorders. The case of a child with dapsone-induced recurrent methemoglobinemia is presented with a discussion of dapsone toxicity and its treatment. In addition, the diagnostic value of pulse oximetry in the presence of dysfunctional hemoglobins is discussed.