Thirty cases of methemoglobinemia secondary to bismuth subnitrate, ammonium nitrate and nitrates in well water have been reported. The case reported below followed the ingestion of bismuth subnitrate ...

Methemoglobinemia (metHb) is a rare medical condition that reduces the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen to cells. It is caused when a protein called methemoglobin is overproduced, either ...

Methemoglobinemia is a congenital or acquired blood disorder caused by an abnormal amount of methemoglobin which is a form of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells (RBCs) ...

Investigation of the electrophoretic characteristics of NADH methemoglobin reductase in five unrelated families with a deficiency of this enzyme showed three different types of enzyme patterns: total ...

Cyanosis in the newborn can be due to methemoglobinemia, an intra-erythrocytic hemoglobin abnormality. Methemoglobinemia is the presence of a higher than normal level of methemoglobin (MetHb) ferric ...