TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Abrus precatorius poisoning: a retrospective study of 112 patients
JO  - Indian journal of critical care medicine
A1  - Karthikeyan, Aishwarya
A1  - Amalnath, S. Deepak
SP  - 224
EP  - 225
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
N2  - Abrus precatorius is a rare but important cause of plant poisoning, especially in tropical countries like India. Most of the published literature on Abrus is limited a few case reports. Hence, we did a retrospective study the clinical features and outcome of Abrus poisoning. Case records of patients admitted to medicine wards during 7 years were included in the study. A total of 112 patients were studied. The majority were females (78%), and most of the patients were between 13 and 30 years (81%). Diarrhea was the most common symptom (66%), and blood in stools was present in (33%). Six patients had died with a mortality rate of (5.35%).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0972-5229
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_320_16
ID  - ref1
ER  -