Citation

Moore KA, Levine B, Fowler D. Forensic Sci. Int. 2005; 149(2-3): 249-251.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.07.017

PMID

15749367

Abstract

A case is presented of a 54-year-old white female found dead in a secured apartment. Postmortem toxicologic analysis of the heart blood identified acetaminophen (97 mg/L), citalopram (0.4 mg/L), gabapentin (24 mg/L) and metaxalone (21 mg/L). The metaxalone concentration is within the range of previously reported fatalities involving metaxalone. The medical examiner ruled that the cause of death was metaxalone and gabapentin intoxication and the manner of death was suicide.

Language: en

Keywords

Amines; Analgesics; Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acids; Female; Gabapentin; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Humans; Liver; Middle Aged; Muscle Relaxants, Central; Oxazolidinones; Suicide