Hantson, Philippe
[UCL]
Hassoun, A.
Mahieu, P.
A 19-year-old woman was admitted 45 min after ethylene glycol (EG) ingestion. The initial serum EG concentration was 1.34 g/l (21.6 mmol/l), the anion gap 14.5, and the osmolal gap 24. Renal function was preserved (serum creatinine 75.1 micromol/l). As the patient was seen soon after poisoning, before the development of metabolic acidosis, therapy with 4-methylpyrazole (4-MP) was proposed as an antidote. 4-MP was administered via the intravenous route (7 mg/kg as loading dose, followed by 3.6, 1.2, 0.6, and 0.6 mg/kg at intervals of 12 h). 4-MP alone was effective in preventing EG biotransformation to toxic metabolites (absence of metabolic acidosis and renal injury). Ethanol therapy, hemodialysis, and sodium bicarbonate administration were not required. The half-life of EG during 4-MP therapy was 11 h, with a mean EG renal clearance of 26.9 ml/min, and a total of 65.3 g EG was eliminated unchanged in the urine. 4-MP therapy was also well tolerated.
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| Bibliographic reference |
Hantson, Philippe ; Hassoun, A. ; Mahieu, P.. Ethylene glycol poisoning treated by intravenous 4-methylpyrazole.. In: Intensive care medicine, Vol. 24, no. 7, p. 736-9 (1998) |
| Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/29574 |
