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Mercury Intoxication and Arterial Hypertension: Report of Two Patients and Review of the Literature, Alfonso D. Torres, Ashok N. Rai and Melissa L. Hardiek.


07/01/2012

ABSTRACT. Two children in the same household with symptomatic arterial hypertension simulating pheochromocytoma were found to be intoxicated with elemental mercury. In children with severe hypertension and elevated catecholamines, the physician should consider mercury intoxication as well as pheochromocytoma. The health hazards of heavy metals need to be reinforced to the medical profession and the general public.

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