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Treatment of acute methanol intoxication with hemodialysis using an ethanol-enriched, bicarbonate-based dialysate
M T Chow1, V A Di Silvestro, C Y Yung
1Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, IL 60141, USA.
Abstract:
A patient poisoned with methanol was successfully hemodialyzed with an ethanol-enriched, bicarbonate-based dialysate. Along with a concomitant intravenous infusion of ethanol, the ethanol-enriched dialytic procedure was able to maintain an intradialytic plasma ethanol level of 80 to 102 mg/dL. The patient recovered without any sequelae of methanol intoxication.