Methemoglobinemia, or methaemoglobinaemia, is a condition of elevated methemoglobin in the blood. Symptoms may include headache, dizziness, shortness...
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Blue baby syndrome (section Methemoglobinemia)
flow to the lungs or mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood. Methemoglobinemia, which is a disease defined by high levels of methemoglobin in the...
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Methylene blue (section Methemoglobinemia)
and as a medication. As a medication, it is mainly used to treat methemoglobinemia by chemically reducing the ferric iron in hemoglobin to ferrous iron...
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are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to appear blue. Martin Fugate and Elizabeth Smith...
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mechanism by which sodium nitrite causes death is methemoglobinemia. The oftentimes severe methemoglobinemia found in sodium nitrite poisoning cases results...
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Hemoglobin M disease is a congenital subtype of methemoglobinemia. For other congenital subtypes of methemoglobinemia, cytochrome b5 reductase (CYB5R) deficiency...
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loss of appetite. Other side effects include liver inflammation, methemoglobinemia, and a number of types of skin rashes. While the safety of use during...
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chemicals and depending on the level can cause health problems known as methemoglobinemia. A higher level of methemoglobin will tend to cause a pulse oximeter...
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to the mouth or mucous membranes has been found to be a cause of methemoglobinemia, a disorder in which the amount of oxygen carried by the blood is...
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Nitrate (section Methemoglobinemia)
nitrosamines, and; via the formation of nitrite, nitrate is implicated in methemoglobinemia, a disorder of hemoglobin in red blood cells susceptible to especially...
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