A Fatal Case of Acute Arsenic Poisoning
| Autor: | Fan Li, Jin-qi Ma, Hai-mei Zhou, Wan Guo, Ping Lu, Guo-Hui Xu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
inorganic chemicals
medicine.medical_specialty integumentary system Inorganic arsenic business.industry chemistry.chemical_element Arsenic poisoning Realgar medicine.disease Gastroenterology Pathology and Forensic Medicine chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Internal medicine Genetics Medicine Arsenic trioxide business Gastric wall Arsenic |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forensic Sciences. 64:1271-1273 |
| ISSN: | 1556-4029 0022-1198 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1556-4029.14017 |
| Popis: | This manuscript reported a case of fatal arsenic poisoning. A woman with schizophrenia took arsenic-containing "pills," which consisted of arsenic trioxide and realgar (arsenic (II) sulfide) and wrapped with gauze. The victim consumed 1.09 and 0.819 g arsenic on two occasions, respectively, with the interval between the two doses of 3 days. The woman died on the sixth day after the first dose without any treatment. In this case, pathological examination revealed fat degeneration of the liver rather than hepatomegaly, a rare finding in acute arsenic poisoning. Arsenic in tissue samples was measured, the total arsenic and inorganic arsenic in blood, liver, and gastric wall was 10.2 μg/mL (9.61 μg/mL), 23.1 μg/g (20.7 μg/g), and 32.3 μg/g (28.6 μg/g), respectively. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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