KISZKA (kish-ke), or blood sausage, is a common table food among Polish nationals in western New York. It is composed of fresh pork and a coarse cereal filler to which beef blood, seasonings and both sodium nitrite and nitrate are added before the mixture is stuffed into casing. Five patients with unexplained sudden cyanosis with "cardiovascular collapse" shortly after ingestion of sausage have been admitted to regional hospitals. The purpose of this report is to describe another patient in whom more intensive investigation gave indirect evidence that nitrite poisoning was responsible for methemoglobinemic cyanosis.Case ReportA 48-year-old factory worker . . .
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