Citation

Cavari Y, Landau D, Sofer S, Leibson T, Lazar I. Pediatr. Emerg. Care 2013; 29(5): 646-647.

Affiliation

From the *Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, †Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics A, and ‡Department of Pediatrics D, Soroka Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PEC.0b013e31828e9e45

PMID

23640144

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury as a direct complication of organophosphate poisoning has rarely been described and its etiology is unclear. CASE: A 17-year-old adolescent girl was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit after a suicidal attempt with chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate insecticide compound. The patient developed acute kidney injury followed by renal failure, necessitating renal replacement therapy. She was treated with continuous venovenous hemofiltration with full resolution of her renal function. CONCLUSIONS: Organophosphate poisoning can lead to renal failure, which, with proper treatment, may be reversible but, if left unattended, might aggravate the clinical course of the disease. Physicians should be aware of this rare complication.

Language: en