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Methemoglobinemia in a young man.
Texas Heart Institute journal - 1 Jan 2008
Hamirani Yasmin S, Franklin Wayne, Grifka Ronald G, Stainback Raymond F
Abstract excerpt
In patients who have cyanosis and dyspnea that are unrelated to a cardiopulmonary cause, 1 rare possible diagnosis is methemoglobinemia. This condition is generally asymptomatic, even when the methemoglobin level is as high as 40% of the total hemoglobin value. In the patient described herein, extensive pulmonologic and cardiologic investigations failed to yield the correct diagnosis, which was finally made on...
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