Intoxication volontaire au mercure: conséquences biologiques et signification psychiatrique

A young patient suffering from schizophrenia had intense headaches and photophobia which were induced by intra-ocular injections of mercury. The clinical diagnosis was established once foreign bodies were visualized on regular X-rays of the patients skull. The mercury intoxication in combination with the secondary irreversible lesions to the eyes necessitated a bilateral enucleation and the use of a chelating treatment with sodium-dimercapto-1-propane sulfate (DMP). Automutilation is a very rare and dramatic complication of schizophrenia. The psychiatric handling and meaning of such dramatic automutilation is discussed in this case report together with a recent review of the toxicologic treatment of mercury intoxication in humans.

Extraordinaire du Mercure galant

1680/10 (T12).

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1680/07 (T11).

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1680/01 (T9).

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1685/07 (T31).

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1679/01 (T5).

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1681/07 (T15).

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1680/04 (T10).

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1678/07 (T3).

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1685/04 (T30).

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1679/10 (T8).

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1684/07 (T27).

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1679/04 (T6).

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1678/10 (T4).

Le Mercure

1723/05.