TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Acute Toxic Herbal Intake in a Suicide Attempt and Fatal Refractory Ventricular Arrhythmia
JO  - Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
A1  - Strzelecki, Antoine
A1  - Pichon, Nicolas
A1  - Gaulier, J. M.
A1  - Amiel, Jean B.
A1  - Champy, Pauline
A1  - Clavel, Marc
SP  - 698
EP  - 699
VL  - 107
IS  - 2
N2  - <p>This report involves a 54-year-old man who died following refractory ventricular fibrillation after ingestion of a plant in a suicide attempt. Repeated direct-current cardioversions were unsuccessful and no single anti-arrhythmic agent was effective for arrhythmia control. The routine blood toxicological screening was negative. Aconitine, the main toxin of Aconitum napellus was identified using a specific liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method. The whole blood concentration (24 mug/l) was higher than those reported in other aconitine-related deaths. The patient had found information about the life-threatening nature of such a toxic herb intake on a free medical encyclopaedia online.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1742-7835
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-7843.2010.00566.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -