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Ethylene glycol poisoning has it all. It is a medical emergency with well-defined clinical stages resulting from an intriguing pathophysiologic process that can be explained by applied biochemistry.¹ The morbidity and mortality associated with untreated ethylene glycol poisoning are high, but with early diagnosis and effective treatment, the mortality is close to nil.^1,2 Therefore, cases of ethylene glycol poisoning are regularly studied as clinicopathological exercises by medical students and residents.³ In my experience, it is hard to find a more challenging type of case to discuss.

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