Successful donation and transplantation of multiple organs after fatal poisoning with brodifacoum, a long-acting anticoagulant rodenticide: Case report

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 475-495

  Ornstein, Deborah L ^a,b   Lord, Karen E ^c   Yanofsky, Norman N ^c   Cornell, Cornelius J ^a   Zacharski, Leo R ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office White River Junction   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRODIFACOUM; RODENTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LETHALITY; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033557314     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199902150-00022     Document Type: Article

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