Citation

Amaral CF, Barbosa AJ, Leite VH, Tafuri WL, de Rezende NA. Toxicon 1994; 32(8): 999-1003.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7985204

Abstract

A 16-year-old boy died with acute pulmonary oedema and shock after Tityus serrulatus scorpion sting. The patient showed evidence of cardiac dysfunction and damage, an increase in tracheobronchial aspirate/plasma protein concentration, light microscopic features of the lung compatible with the adult respiratory distress syndrome and electron microscopic findings compatible with acute lung injury and increased alveolocapillary membrane permeability.

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