title: [Application of the national diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical manifestation of patients with renal injury induced by chronic mercury intoxication and the application of the diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical data of 8 patients with chronic occupational mercury intoxication were analysed and evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All the observed clinical signs of chronic mercury intoxication correspond with the items of the diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning. The increasing beta2-MG was one of the clinical manifestations of renal injury induced by chronical mercury intoxication. The renal injury obviously was dose-dependent and reversible.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The national diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning is practically valuable. The renal injury induced by chronic mercury intoxication should not be neglected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Diseases, Shanghai Yangpu District Central Hospital, Shanghai 200090, China. xykuang@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Xing-ya
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Kuang
authors.forename: Yu-mei
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Xue-tao
authors.initials: XT
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Shun-rong
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Yi-wen
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Yue-qing
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Wei-min
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Ni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008630:Mercury Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012015:Reference Standards