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ArticleArchives of environmental & occupational health2011

Renal failure and occupational exposure to organic solvents: what work-up should be performed?

Zakia Mediouni, Guillaume Potherat, Xavier Barrere, Alain Debure, Alexis Descatha

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Article in Archives of environmental & occupational health, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Zakia MediouniOccupational Health Unit, UVSQ-AP-HP, INSERM U1018-SAMU92, Raymond Poincare University Hospital, Garches, France.
Guillaume Potherat
Xavier Barrere
Alain Debure
Alexis Descatha

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The etiological work-up of a disease with an occupational component, such as renal failure associated with exposure to organic solvents, may include several complementary investigations. The authors discussed certain elements of the etiological work-up in the light of a clinical case, particularly the individual and collective advantages and disadvantages of this work-up. Further investigations would not have provided the patient with any individual or collective benefit and were therefore not performed, whereas other investigations (environmental studies, screening of fellow workers) may provide collective rather than individual benefits, but must be decided by a multidisciplinary approach. A multidisciplinary study (general practitioner, nephrologist, occupational health physician, and specialist in toxicology) is necessary to discuss the appropriate etiological work-up, taking into account the individual and collective benefit-risk balance.

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HumansMaleMiddle AgedOccupational ExposureOrganic ChemicalsRenal InsufficiencySolventsOrganic ChemicalsSolvents

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PMID21337187
PMCPMC3320581

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