Citation

Ishigaki S, Fukasawa H, Kinoshita-Katahashi N, Yasuda H, Kumagai H, Furuya R. Intern. Med. 2014; 53(23): 2745-2747.

Affiliation

Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwata City Hospital, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Japanese Society of Internal Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

25447662

Abstract

Caffeine is an easily available drug which is generally regarded as being safe. However, it can lead to a lethal outcome in severe cases of caffeine intoxication. We herein report a case of a 32-year-old man who ingested approximately 15.6 g of caffeine in a suicide attempt. He suffered from sustained ventricular tachycardia despite conservative treatment. Therefore, we performed a combined therapy of hemoperfusion and hemodialysis which resulted in rapid improvement of the patient's ventricular tachycardia as well as a reduction of the patient's plasma caffeine level. To the best of our knowledge, this combination has not been previously reported to treat caffeine intoxication.

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