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Salicylate Toxicity
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Salicylate Toxicity

A. Robert W Forrest, Biff F Palmer and Deborah J Clegg
The New England journal of medicine, v 383(13), pp 1288-1289
24 Sep 2020
PMID: 32966733

Abstract

To the Editor: Palmer and Clegg (June 25 issue) 1 emphasize the potential difficulty in diagnosing chronic salicylate toxicity and the need to have a low threshold for requesting a plasma salicylate assay. The same considerations apply in the investigation of death of uncertain cause, particularly in older patients. It is important that a blood salicylate assay be part of the postmortem toxicologic study in the investigation of such a death. The authors reply: Chronic salicylate poisoning is easily overlooked because symptoms are often mild, are attributed to underlying coexisting conditions, or are mistakenly ascribed to the illness for which the . . .

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