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Descriptor English: Heavy Metal Poisoning
Descriptor Spanish: Intoxicación por Metales Pesados
Descriptor intoxicación por metales pesados
Scope note: Intoxicación resultante de la ingestión aguda o crónica, la inhalación, la inyección, o la absorción percutánea de METALES PESADOS. Las exposiciones agudas o crónicas pueden causar ANEMIA, lesiones en el RIÑÓN y el HÍGADO, EDEMA PULMONAR, PÉRDIDA DE LA MEMORIA y trastornos del comportamiento, deformidades óseas en niños, así como ABORTO ESPONTÁNEO o PARTO PREMATURO en mujeres embarazadas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Intoxicação por Metais Pesados
Descriptor French: Empoisonnement aux métaux lourds
Entry term(s): Heavy Metal Poisonings
Metal Poisoning, Heavy
Metal Poisonings, Heavy
Poisoning, Heavy Metal
Poisonings, Heavy Metal
Tree number(s): C25.723.522
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000075322
Scope note: Poisoning that results from chronic or acute ingestion, injection, inhalation, or skin absorption of HEAVY METALS. Acute and chronic exposures can cause ANEMIA; KIDNEY and LIVER damage; PULMONARY EDEMA; MEMORY LOSS and behavioral changes; bone deformities in children; and MISCARRIAGE or PREMATURE LABOR in pregnant women.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2018; HEAVY METAL TOXICITY was indexed under POISONING 2010-2017 and METALS, HEAVY/POISONING 2010-2017
History Note: 2018(2010)
Related: Metals, Heavy MeSH
DeCS ID: 56968
Unique ID: D000075322
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2018/01/01
Date of Entry: 2017/07/11
Revision Date: 2017/06/20
Heavy Metal Poisoning - Preferred
Concept UI M000630177
Scope note Poisoning that results from chronic or acute ingestion, injection, inhalation, or skin absorption of HEAVY METALS. Acute and chronic exposures can cause ANEMIA; KIDNEY and LIVER damage; PULMONARY EDEMA; MEMORY LOSS and behavioral changes; bone deformities in children; and MISCARRIAGE or PREMATURE LABOR in pregnant women.
Preferred term Heavy Metal Poisoning
Entry term(s) Heavy Metal Poisonings
Metal Poisoning, Heavy
Metal Poisonings, Heavy
Poisoning, Heavy Metal
Poisonings, Heavy Metal



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