The “wing-heeled” traveler

Abstract Intoxication syndromes may be travel acquired, and are related to intentional or accidental inhalational or percutaneous exposures or ingestions. Due to their myriad clinical presentations, initial differential diagnosis of such intoxications in returned travelers is broad, and typically re...

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Published in:Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
Main Authors: Taylor Kain, Jordan Weinstein, Aaron Thompson, Andrea K. Boggild
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020
Subjects:
Ciguatera fish poisoning
Heavy metal intoxication
Nephropathy
Neuropathy
Skin bleaching
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40794-020-0103-y
https://doaj.org/article/35c59d1297de4901a2c58be8d1e99e59
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Summary:Abstract Intoxication syndromes may be travel acquired, and are related to intentional or accidental inhalational or percutaneous exposures or ingestions. Due to their myriad clinical presentations, initial differential diagnosis of such intoxications in returned travelers is broad, and typically requires detailed history and laboratory investigations to disentangle. We herein use a case-based clinical problem solving approach to illumination of a mercury intoxication syndrome, which presented in a 48-year-old VFR traveler to Guyana. Common clinical presentations, differential diagnoses, laboratory investigations, and therapeutic interventions are discussed.

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