[Acute poisonings with Gramoxone (paraquat)]

The first two cases of acute intoxications with gramoxone (Paraquat) in P.R. of Bulgaria are described--a female of 34, in Toxicated by inhalation and male of 71, swallowed the poison per os. The author finds certain peculiarities in the disease course, differing from the literature data. No morbid changes developed in the lungs of the two patients, which, according to the foreign authors, were characteristic for that kind of intoxications. On the other hand--serious lesions of the upper-respiratory ducts and disturvance in their possibility were observed in the patient with the per os intoxication. The late development (6ty day) of morbid changes in the liver of the same patient are stressed upon, regardless the energetic preventive treatment with hepatoprotective remedies. The necessity of continuous follow-up of liver state and the respective treatment are also stressed.