PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alok Gupta
AU  - Nirdesh Jain
AU  - Avinash Agrawal
AU  - Arjun Khanna
AU  - Manish Gutch
TI  - A fatal case of severe methaemoglobinemia due to nitrobenzene poisoning
AID  - 10.1136/emj.07.2011.4431rep
DP  - 2012 Jan 01
TA  - Emergency Medicine Journal
PG  - 70--71
VI  - 29
IP  - 1
4099  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/29/1/70.short
4100  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/29/1/70.full
SO  - Emerg Med J2012 Jan 01; 29
AB  - An acute poisoning with nitrobenzene presenting as methaemoglobinemia is an uncommon medical emergency. A young girl with nitrobenzene induced methaemoglobinaemia died despite use of mechanical ventilator, administration of oral methylene blue and parenteral ascorbic acid. Here author highlights the rare occurrence of such cases, methaemoglobin induced severe oxidative stress, unexplained splenomegaly and leucocytosis and the ineffectivity of oral methylene blue and other supportive measures in evading death due to nitrobenzene poisoning.