POISONING

Acute poisoning occurs when a relatively large amount is imbibed rapidly leading to acute toxicity and paralysis of the medullary respiratory and cardiovascular centres. Chronic poisoning is more common with variable end organ damage - fatty change and cirrhosis of the liver, alcoholic hepatitis, cardiomyopathy, cerebral atrophy etc. ................
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