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  • Title: Plasma mercury during prolonged acute renal failure after mercuric chloride ingestion.
    Author: Newton JA, House IM, Volans GN, Goodwin FJ.
    Journal: Hum Toxicol; 1983 Jul; 2(3):535-7. PubMed ID: 6224739.
    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.
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