| Literature DB >> 24596762 |
Deepak Balasubramanian1, Saravanan Subramanian2, Pugazhenthan Thangaraju3, Kani Shanmugam4.
Abstract
Hair dye poisoning has been rising in incidence in the recent years. Apart from the commoner manifestations of upper airway edema, rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure, cardiac toxicity, convulsions and sudden cardiac death are relatively rare complications. We discuss a case of hair dye poisoning manifesting as oropharyngeal edema along with cardiac complication. The patient survived.Entities:
Keywords: Hair dye poisoning; Myocarditis; Paraphenylenediamine
Year: 2014 PMID: 24596762 PMCID: PMC3939543 DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/6966.3962
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Diagn Res ISSN: 0973-709X