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Pulmonary damage due to paraquat poisoning through skin absorption
S A Papiris1, M A Maniati, V Kyriakidis
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A case of recovery from acute respiratory insufficiency due to paraquat is described. A 57-year-old farmer developed breathlessness, high fever and interstitial infiltrates in the upper and middle lung fields few days after percutaneous paraquat poisoning with rapid evolution to pulmonary fibrosis. Anti-inflammatory drugs and antioxidants, were administered to the patient, though with a delay, with some improvement; the patient survived despite residual lung fibrosis. Paraquat lung, as confirmed by this paper, is not invariably fatal.