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 ...

Potentially harmful levels of methemoglobin, which can build in patients receiving certain anesthetics, can be detected using a new, non-invasive monitoring technique called pulse CO-oximetry, ...

Persons with recessively transmitted methemoglobinemia have slate-gray cyanosis. In general they encounter little difficulty although a small but significant number have mental retardation. In 1956 ...

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 ...

(HealthDay News) — Use of topical dapsone may have led to the development of methemoglobinemia, according to a case study published in the Jan. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. A ...

Potentially harmful levels of methemoglobin, which can build in patients receiving certain anesthetics, can be detected using a new, non-invasive monitoring technique called pulse CO-oximetry, ...