title: Plasma mercury during prolonged acute renal failure after mercuric chloride ingestion.
abstract: Serial measurements of plasma mercury were made in a patient with severe and prolonged acute renal failure due to poisoning with mercuric chloride. An initial mercury concentration in whole blood of 1200 micrograms/l (6 mumol/l) was recorded, and recovery of renal function coincided with a fall in plasma mercury concentration to below 100 micrograms/l (0.5 mumol/l). The case demonstrates that survival and recovery of renal function is possible despite very high concentrations of mercury in the blood and oliguric renal failure of nearly six weeks' duration.
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000097:blood / Q000139:chemically induced*; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008627:Mercuric Chloride; D008628:Mercury / Q000097:blood*; D008630:Mercury Poisoning
chemical_list: D008627:Mercuric Chloride; D008628:Mercury