Citation

Rietbrock N, Wojahn H, Weinmann J, Hasford J, Kuhlmann J. Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. 1978; 103(46): 1841-1844.

Vernacular Title

Todlich verlaufene beta-Methyldigoxin-Intoxikation in suizidaler Absicht.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

710306

Abstract

A 50-year-old woman committed suicide by taking an overdose of beta-methyldigoxin. The interval between swallowing the tablets and death was about 60 minutes. Plasma and tissue samples, taken 163 hours after death, were analysed for glycosides by radioimmunoassay. The plasma-glycoside level was 75.1 ng/ml, in the left ventricular myocardium it was 143.2 ng/g wet-weight. and in the right ventricular myocardium 159.7 ng/g wet-weight. The tissue-plasma ratio for the various parts of the heart varied from 0.8 to 2.1. Death occurred in the early distribution stage.

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