Application of the national diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning
Kuang, X-ya.; Feng, Y-mei.; Zhang, X-tao.; Zhang, S-rong.; Yao, F.; Lu, Y-wen.; Luo, Y-qing.; Ni, W-min.
Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 29(5): 376-377
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1001-9391 PMID: 21972538 Document Number: 649530
To investigate the clinical manifestation of patients with renal injury induced by chronic mercury intoxication and the application of the diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning. The clinical data of 8 patients with chronic occupational mercury intoxication were analysed and evaluated. All the observed clinical signs of chronic mercury intoxication correspond with the items of the diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning. The increasing beta2-MG was one of the clinical manifestations of renal injury induced by chronical mercury intoxication. The renal injury obviously was dose-dependent and reversible. The national diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning is practically valuable. The renal injury induced by chronic mercury intoxication should not be neglected.