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The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website and App

Frequency - Incidence

Incidence of respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as assessed by number of reported/published cases in the literature. Red digits in stars indicate: 0 = Very rare, questionable signal · 1 = < 10 cases · 2 = 10-50 cases · 3 = 50–100 cases · 4 = 100-200 cases · 5 = >200 cases

Evidence level/grade

Evidence level for respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as estimated using Hill’s (1965), Naranjo’s (1981), and Bégaud’s (1985) criteria applied to published cases. Blue digits in stars indicate: 0 = Questionable · 1 = Low · 2 = Moderate · 3 = Robust · 4 = Definite · 5 = Unquestionable, pathognomonic

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Mercury pulmonary embolism

Publications

Mamdani H, Vettese TE

Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary emboli caused by mercury.

The New England journal of medicine. 2013;369(21):2031

Bach AG, Restrepo CS, Abbas J, Villanueva A, Lorenzo Dus MJ, Schöpf R, Imanaka H, Lehmkuhl L, Tsang FH, Saad FF, Lau E, Rubio Alvarez J, Battal B, Behrmann C, Spielmann RP, Surov A

Imaging of nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism: biological materials, nonbiological materials, and foreign bodies.

European journal of radiology. 2013;82(3):e120-41

Kang SH, Park SW, Moon KY

Postoperative systemic dissemination of injected elemental mercury.

Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society. 2011;49(4):245-7

Lorenzo Dus MJ, Cases Viedma E, Bravo Gutiérrez J, Lloris Bayo A, Sanchis Aldás JL

[Pulmonary embolism caused by elemental mercury].

Archivos de bronconeumologia. 2007;43(10):585-7

Baddi L, Ray D

An unusual nosocomial pneumonia.

Chest. 2002;122(3):1077-9

McFee RB, Caraccio TR

Intravenous mercury injection and ingestion: clinical manifestations and management.

Journal of toxicology. Clinical toxicology. 2001;39(7):733-8

Gutiérrez F, Leon L

Images in clinical medicine. Elemental mercury embolism to the lung.

The New England journal of medicine. 2000;342(24):1791

Peterson N, Harvey-Smith W, Rohrmann CA Jr

Radiographic aspects of metallic mercury embolism.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 1980;135(5):1079-81

De Ruggieri MA, Pampiglione E, Annicchiarico Petruzzelli B, Aurizi A

[A case of embolism caused by metallic mercury in a drug addict].

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita. 1989;1(3-4):673-8