Early diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of five patients with acute thallium poisoning

Table 6 Intervals from exposure to diagnosis and outcomes from published studies on patients with thallium poisoning

Ref.	Number of cases	Mean interval from exposure to diagnosis (d)	Follow-up (mo)	Outcomes
				Death	Survive with severe sequelae	Survive with mild sequelae
Misra et al[27], 2003	1	18	6	0	0	1
Tian et al[28], 2005	1	20	During hospitalization	0	0	1
Lu et al[29], 2007	2	21	12	0	0	2
Zhao et al[8], 2008	3	21.7	1-3	0	0	3
Pelclová et al[30], 2009	2	112.5	18-22	0	2	0
Sun et al[14], 2012	14	14.6	6-8	1	0	13
Huang et al[9], 2014	1	2	During hospitalization	0	0	1
Zhang et al[31], 2014	9	12.1	6	0	0	9
Li et al[11], 2014	13	23.8	12-144	2	0	11
Li et al[12], 2015	2	153	During hospitalization	2	0	0
Almassri et al[32], 2018	3	45	20	0	0	3
Ash and He[33], 2018	1	150	37	0	1	0
Lin et al[10], 2019	34	13	21-96 (31 cases)	0	2	29
Total	86	23.6	1-144	5	5	73

The intervals from exposure of thallium to diagnosis were converted into days. One week = 7 d; One month = 30 d. The recent exposure was chosen for this study in the patients with multiple intoxications. Cases were grouped according to the outcomes described in the original papers: Death, severe sequelae (need assistance with daily activities), and mild sequelae (independent for daily activities).