Toxic diseases

Articles

• tetanus
  15 March 2009

  Tetanus, also called lockjaw, is a medical condition characterized by a prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibers. The primary symptoms are caused by tetanospasmin, a neurotoxin produced by the Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani.
  Infection generally occurs through wound contamination, and often involves a cut or deep puncture wound. As the infection progresses, muscle spasms in the jaw develop, hence the name lockjaw. This is followed by difficulty in (...)

• hepatic drug-induced injury
  15 June 2009

  drug-induced liver injury; DILI
  The diagnosis of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a challenging problem, often confounded by incomplete clinical information and the difficulty of eliciting exposure to herbal products, over-the-counter agents and toxins.
  The task is further rendered difficult on biopsy, as drugs can mimic all the patterns found in primary liver disease.
  The drug-induced acute hepatitis, with or without cholestasis, is the most common histological pattern of DILI, and (...)

• minocycline-induced hepatitis
  16 June 2005

  minocycline-induced autoimmune hepatitis

• staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
  5 February 2006

  SSSS, Ritter disease