SCORPION STING-INDUCED PULMONARY-EDEMA - EVIDENCE OF INCREASED ALVEOLOCAPILLARY MEMBRANE-PERMEABILITY

Authors
AMARAL CFS BARBOSA AJF LEITE VHR TAFURI WL DEREZENDE NA
Citation
Cfs. Amaral et al., SCORPION STING-INDUCED PULMONARY-EDEMA - EVIDENCE OF INCREASED ALVEOLOCAPILLARY MEMBRANE-PERMEABILITY, Toxicon, 32(8), 1994, pp. 999-1003
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Toxicology,"Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Journal title
Toxicon → ACNP
ISSN journal
00410101
Volume
32
Issue
8
Year of publication
1994
Pages
999 - 1003
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-0101(1994)32:8<999:SSP-EO>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A 16-year-old boy died with acute pulmonary oedema and shock after Tit yus serrulatus scorpion sting. The patient showed evidence of cardiac dysfunction and damage, an increase in tracheobronchial aspirate/plasm a protein concentration, light microscopic features of the lung compat ible with the adult respiratory dystress syndrome and electron microsc opic findings compatible with acute lung injury and increased alveoloc apillary membrane permeability.