Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional Study
Background: Methanol poisoning is a serious problem in public health, especially in developing countries. The present study aimed to evaluate the incidence of visual disturbances in patients with acute methanol poisoning in the south of Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study (from 21/March/2014...
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author | Razieh Sadat Mousavi-Roknabadi Mahdi Alibeigi Mehrdad Sharifi Reyhaneh Sadat Mousavi-Roknabadi Zahra Beizavi |
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description | Background: Methanol poisoning is a serious problem in public health, especially in developing countries. The present study aimed to evaluate the incidence of visual disturbances in patients with acute methanol poisoning in the south of Iran.
Methods: This cross-sectional study (from 21/March/2014 to 21/March/2019) was conducted on all adult patients’ medical records who were referred to Ali-Asghar Hospital in Shiraz City, Iran, with acute methanol poisoning. The required data were collected using a data-gathering form and were then analyzed.
Results: Twenty male patients were enrolled in this research, with Mean±SD age of 33.15±10.40 years. Visual disturbances were observed in 15(75%) of the study subjects, as the most common clinical manifestations. Blurred vision (40%) and blindness (35%) were the most frequent visual disturbances in the study participants. None of the study subjects reported photophobia. The explored variables did not differ between patients with visual disturbances and those without visual disturbances. Only one patient who encountered blindness was expired.
Conclusion: The incidence of visual disturbances in the study patients with acute methanol poisoning was higher than that of similar studies. |
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spelling | doaj.art-f16c5657138c430a93dbd6494314505d2022-12-21T19:09:02ZengShaheed Beheshti University of Medical SciencesInternational Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine2251-87622251-87702021-08-0111333949https://doi.org/10.32598/ijmtfm.v11i3.33949Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional StudyRazieh Sadat Mousavi-Roknabadi0Mahdi Alibeigi1Mehrdad Sharifi2Reyhaneh Sadat Mousavi-Roknabadi3Zahra Beizavi4Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.Student Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.Student Research Committee, Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.Background: Methanol poisoning is a serious problem in public health, especially in developing countries. The present study aimed to evaluate the incidence of visual disturbances in patients with acute methanol poisoning in the south of Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study (from 21/March/2014 to 21/March/2019) was conducted on all adult patients’ medical records who were referred to Ali-Asghar Hospital in Shiraz City, Iran, with acute methanol poisoning. The required data were collected using a data-gathering form and were then analyzed. Results: Twenty male patients were enrolled in this research, with Mean±SD age of 33.15±10.40 years. Visual disturbances were observed in 15(75%) of the study subjects, as the most common clinical manifestations. Blurred vision (40%) and blindness (35%) were the most frequent visual disturbances in the study participants. None of the study subjects reported photophobia. The explored variables did not differ between patients with visual disturbances and those without visual disturbances. Only one patient who encountered blindness was expired. Conclusion: The incidence of visual disturbances in the study patients with acute methanol poisoning was higher than that of similar studies.https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/ijmtfm/article/view/33949methanolpoisoningepidemiologytoxicityiran |
spellingShingle | Razieh Sadat Mousavi-Roknabadi Mahdi Alibeigi Mehrdad Sharifi Reyhaneh Sadat Mousavi-Roknabadi Zahra Beizavi Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional Study International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine methanol poisoning epidemiology toxicity iran |
title | Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional Study |
title_full | Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional Study |
title_short | Visual Disturbances in Patients With Acute Methanol Poisoning: A Cross-sectional Study |
title_sort | visual disturbances in patients with acute methanol poisoning a cross sectional study |
topic | methanol poisoning epidemiology toxicity iran |
url | https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/ijmtfm/article/view/33949 |
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