Citation

Yersin B, Frey JG, Schaller MD, Nicod P, Perret C. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1987; 16(12): 1396-1397.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3688609

Abstract

A 40-year-old woman presented with vomiting and abdominal pain following voluntary ingestion of 150 yew leaves. She developed ventricular conduction defects and arrhythmias unresponsive to medical treatment after admission. She expired five hours after yew ingestion from irreversible cardiogenic shock. More attention should be given to this rare but severe intoxication for which no effective therapy is known.

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