Year: 1978
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Cobalt cardiomyopathy in a patient on maintenance haemodialysisCobalt has been incriminated in cardiomyopathies in Quebec beer drinkers,' a person exposed to industrial cobalt,2 and in patients on maintenance haemodialysis with3 and without4 cobalt therapy.We report a case of cardiomyopathy in a 17-year-old girl on maintenance haemodialysis who was given cobalt.Case report Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis was diagnosed in this patient in 1969 when aged 9 and haemodialysis was started in 1974.She had inter- mittent hypertension from 1973 to 1976.Bilateral nephroureterectomy was performed in 1976 because of hypertension and ureteric reflux.From 1975 she had recurrent attacks of severe symptomatic anaemia which, despite iron and folic acid therapy, required frequent transfusions, causing fluid overload.Photomicrograph showing an area of myocardial necrosis.(Haematoxylin and eosin.x 124.) other cases of cobalt exposure in maintenance dialysis.A "normal" value has been quoted as about 0-2 parts per million.3
Source: BMJ
Authors: I H Manifold, M M Platts, A Kennedy
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2091641783