Flecainide toxicity: Cause and contribution to death

Legal Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 233-236

  Lynch, Matthew J ^a   Gerostamoulos, Jim ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Death; Flecainide; Forensic; Pathology; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIAZEPAM; FLECAINIDE; FLECAINIDE ACETATE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0035164244     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(01)00034-7     Document Type: Article

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