TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Caffeine intoxication successfully treated by hemoperfusion and hemodialysis
JO  - Internal medicine
A1  - Ishigaki, Sayaka
A1  - Fukasawa, Hirotaka
A1  - Kinoshita-Katahashi, Naoko
A1  - Yasuda, Hideo
A1  - Kumagai, Hiromichi
A1  - Furuya, Ryuichi
SP  - 2745
EP  - 2747
VL  - 53
IS  - 23
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0918-2918
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -