Urban T, Chouaid C, Febvre M, Roussard P, Housset B, Lebeau B
Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris.
Rev Mal Respir. 1993;10(5):477-9.
We describe a case of pulmonary emboli due to mercury in a female drug addict who was HIV positive and had voluntarily injected herself with mercury. The diagnosis was guided by the history and by the characteristics of the chest radiograph and was confirmed by blood and urine levels of mercury and the radiograph taken of the site of the intravenous injection. Three years after the injection the patient did not reveal any signs suggesting disturbance due to the chronic pulmonary exposure to mercury, but there was a reduced carbon monoxide transfer, whose interpretation was difficult due to the past respiratory history and to the drug addiction.
我们描述了一名女性吸毒成瘾者因汞导致肺栓塞的病例，该患者为HIV阳性，曾自愿给自己注射汞。诊断依据病史、胸部X光片特征，并通过血液和尿液中的汞含量以及静脉注射部位的X光片得到证实。注射三年后，患者未表现出因长期肺部接触汞而导致的任何紊乱迹象，但一氧化碳转运有所降低，由于既往呼吸病史和吸毒成瘾，难以对其进行解读。
