Neurol. praxi. 2010;11(4):232-235
Occupapion-related chronic intoxication with technical petrol
- 1 Centrum pracovního lékařství, PKN, a. s., Pardubice
- 2 Neurologická klinika PKN, a. s., FZS Univerzita Pardubice
Technical gasoline is a mixture of aliphatic and aromatic carbohydrates that is used for cleaning the metal products and components.
It enters the human body by inhalation, less often through gastrointestinal and transdermal way. In 55-year old man a chronic intoxication
of technical gasoline vapors developed during 10-month exposure. At first some unspecified symptoms occured (headaches,
disturbances of concentration), then dyspnea with epigastric pain (he was shortly admitted to department of internal medicine), and
lastly as an acute psychotic state (hospitalization in psychiatry). Since then there are outlasting psychiatric symptoms (anxiety, disturbances
of thinking, cognitive deficit), neurological signs (extrapyramidal syndrome, tremor), and pathological findings of auxiliary
investigations (EEG, VEP, EMG, MRI). An occupational disease was acknowledged.
Keywords: technical gasoline, inhalation of gasoline vapors, dyspnea, acute psychosis, extrapyramidal syndrome
Published: October 1, 2010 Show citation
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