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LEONARD TARR, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1933;51(1):38-44.

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Toxic manifestations due to the administration of large doses of the nitrates are well known. This is particularly true of bismuth subnitrate.¹ The most striking finding in such patients is methemoglobinemia with severe cyanosis. The factor responsible is a reduction of the nitrate to the nitrite with subsequent transformation of the hemoglobin to methemoglobin.

In 1926 Jacobs and Keith² suggested the use of ammonium nitrate as the least disagreeable and the most effective of the acid-producing salts to be used as a diuretic. They employed it extensively at the Mayo Clinic without any detrimental effects.

In 1928 Barker and O'Hare³ reported for the first time the appearance of severe cyanosis in a patient with nephrosis who had received 15 Gm. of ammonium nitrate a day for ten days. They attributed the condition to methemoglobinemia, although spectroscopic examination of the blood was not made.

In 1929 Eusterman and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Medical Division of the Montefiore Hospital.

Footnotes
This work was done under the auspices of the Hilda Stich Stroock Fellowship.

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