Citation

Marrón Moya T, Landívar Freire VC, Font Valsecchi G, Leal Bazán MJ, Sánchez Fité M. Rev. Esp. Med. Legal 2013; 39(1): 37-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Madrid Asociacion Nacional de Medicos Forenses, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.reml.2012.05.005

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

It is not very common to find cases of suicide due to acute poisoning by an overdose of chloroquine. An analysis was made of two cases of death caused by chloroquine subjected to a medical-legal autopsy, both of which took place in Barcelona during the years 2010 and 2011. The frequency of poisoning attributed to chloroquine in the city of Barcelona during the 19 months between January 2010 and July 2011 was established as 0.16% of the mortality by the Forensic Pathology Department (SPF) of the Catalonian Institute of Legal Medicine (IMLC). The examination of the scene of death is the key point to be able to initiate the specific toxicological search to obtain the diagnosis. Our study and the literature review confirmed that in lethal poisonings due to chloroquine, as in other poisonings, the morphological findings are non-specific. © 2012 Asociacion Nacional de Médicos Forenses.

Language: es

Keywords

Suicide; Antimalarial; Autoimmune diseases; Death by chloroquine