Citation

Schneider W, Girmann G, Luthe R, Wagner HJ. Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. 1975; 100(37): 1838-1841.

Vernacular Title

Mordversuch mit Phenprocumon (Marcumar). Krankenschwester verursacht "familiare

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-0028-1106469

PMID

1157694

Abstract

The first known case of attempted murder by means of a coumarine-containing drug, administered by a nurse to her husband, is reported. Small doses of phenprocoumon were regularly added to his food or drinks. He was admitted to hospital with a severe haemorrhagic diathesis which, at first, was thought to be a familial haemorrhagic disease, his mother having died of recurrent hypoprothrombinaemia a few years earlier, the cause of her bleeding trouble never having been established. The wife was sentenced to eight years imprisonment.

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