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  • Title: Pulmonary damage due to paraquat poisoning through skin absorption.
    Author: Papiris SA, Maniati MA, Kyriakidis V, Constantopoulos SH.
    Journal: Respiration; 1995; 62(2):101-3. PubMed ID: 7784705.
    Abstract:
    A case of recovery from acute respiratory insufficiency due to paraquat is described. A 57-year-old farmer developed breathlessness, high fever and interstitial infiltrates in the upper and middle lung fields few days after percutaneous paraquat poisoning with rapid evolution to pulmonary fibrosis. Anti-inflammatory drugs and antioxidants, were administered to the patient, though with a delay, with some improvement; the patient survived despite residual lung fibrosis. Paraquat lung, as confirmed by this paper, is not invariably fatal.
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