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ArticleSultan Qaboos University medical journal2018

Lead Toxicity due to Ingestion of Lead-Contaminated Opium in a Patient Presenting with Motor Neuropathy and Upper Limb

Seyed M M Mirzaei, Ayob Akbari, Omid Mehrpour, Nasim Zamani

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Article in Sultan Qaboos University medical journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Seyed M M MirzaeiDepartment of Neurology, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Ayob AkbariDepartment of Medical Toxicology and Drug Abuse Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Omid MehrpourRocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Nasim ZamaniDepartment of Clinical Toxicology, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
Birjand University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Opium users may present with central or peripheral nervous system-related symptoms, gastrointestinal complications and anaemia; in such cases, lead poisoning should be suspected and chelation therapy initiated as soon as possible. We report a 64-year-old male patient with a 20-year history of opium addiction who was referred to the Imam Reza Hospital, Birjand, Iran, in 2017 with severe motor neuropathy and

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Chelation TherapyHumansIranLeadMaleMiddle AgedNeural ConductionOpiumOpium DependenceParesisLeadOpiumCase ReportIranLead-Induced Nervous System DiseasesLead PoisoningOpium DependenceParesthesia

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PMID30988975
PMCPMC6443289
OpenAlexW2930221549

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