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(acquired) Acquired unreviewed

Cyanide / carbon monoxide poisoning

Enzyme or protein defect

Complex IV (cytochrome c oxidase) inhibition

Accumulates or becomes deficient

Lactate; high venous O2 (cyanide)

Key features

Headache, coma, lactic acidosis; cherry-red skin in CO; bitter-almond odour in cyanide

Management

Hydroxocobalamin/nitrites + thiosulfate; 100% O2 or hyperbaric for CO

Not clinical guidance. Written from standard clinical biochemistry, not from the uploaded documents, and marked unreviewed. Teaching-level reference for study and database seeding only. It must not be used to manage a patient.

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