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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-4-3
pubmed:abstractText
Three groups of agricultural workers with a history of exposure to organophosphate pesticides were followed up to evaluate the utility of sequential postexposure cholinesterase analyses to confirm organophosphate intoxication in the absence of baseline cholinesterase values. Three or more cholinergic symptoms were reported by 50 of the 72 patients. Initial plasma and red blood cell cholinesterase values of 45 of the workers were above the lower limit of the laboratory normal range. Follow-up examinations, including cholinesterase analyses, were conducted on 57 patients. When final postexposure cholinesterase determinations were taken as estimates of individual normal baseline values, the plasma and red blood cell activity of the three groups was shown to have been inhibited. The data support the use of sequential postexposure plasma cholinesterase analyses to confirm the diagnosis of organophosphate-induced illness in the absence of baseline values.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0003-9926
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
147
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
438-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical confirmation of organophosphate poisoning by serial cholinesterase analyses.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't