Anion-gap Metabolism with decreased vision occurs with the following poisoning
Correct Answer: Methanol
Description: (D) Methanol# Acute intoxication with Methanol is common in chronic alcoholics.> Headache, vertigo, vomiting, abdominal pain, dyspnea, blurred vision, and hyperemia of the optic disc can occur.> Visual disturbances are caused by damage to retinal cells and the optic nerve by methanol metabolites.> Severe cases of intoxication can lead to blindness.> Other symptoms include bradycardia, prolonged coma, seizures, acidosis, and death by respiratory depression.> Because methanol is biotransformed by alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenase to highly toxic products (formaldehyde & formic acid, respectively), Ethanol, which has a high affinity for the enzyme, is useful in therapy because it reduces the biotransformation of methanol.> Other treatments include hemodialysisto enhance removal of methanol & its products and alkalinization to reverse metabolic acidosis> 4-methylprazole, an inhibitor of alcohol dehydrogenase, has also been proposed for treatment.> Treatment with ascorbic acid would aggravate the acidosis.
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