@article{ref1,
title="Caffeine intoxication successfully treated by hemoperfusion and hemodialysis",
journal="Internal medicine",
year="2014",
author="Ishigaki, Sayaka and Fukasawa, Hirotaka and Kinoshita-Katahashi, Naoko and Yasuda, Hideo and Kumagai, Hiromichi and Furuya, Ryuichi",
volume="53",
number="23",
pages="2745-2747",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0918-2918",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}