TY - JOUR
T1 - A Male Adolescent With Fever, Headaches, and Body Aches
AU - Czolgosz, Thomas J.
AU - Kannikeswaran, Nirupama
AU - Stankovic, Curt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - A 17-year-old African-American male adolescent had recurrent emergency department visits for hypertension resistant to initial treatment, which resulted in multiple hospital admissions. Hypertension was associated with significant weight loss, peripheral neuropathy, and night sweats. An extensive laboratory and imaging workup ruled out renal, cardiac, rheumatologic, and endocrine causes for his symptoms. Ultimately, a more detailed history and toxicology consultation led to the cause of his persistent symptoms: mercury poisoning.
AB - A 17-year-old African-American male adolescent had recurrent emergency department visits for hypertension resistant to initial treatment, which resulted in multiple hospital admissions. Hypertension was associated with significant weight loss, peripheral neuropathy, and night sweats. An extensive laboratory and imaging workup ruled out renal, cardiac, rheumatologic, and endocrine causes for his symptoms. Ultimately, a more detailed history and toxicology consultation led to the cause of his persistent symptoms: mercury poisoning.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Hypertension
KW - Mercury poisoning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84930572776&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cpem.2015.04.009
DO - 10.1016/j.cpem.2015.04.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84930572776
VL - 16
SP - 125
EP - 130
JO - Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
JF - Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
SN - 1522-8401
IS - 2
ER -