Aluminum phosphide intoxication mimicking ischemic heart disease led to unjustified treatment with streptokinase Letter to the editor

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 908-909

  Soltaninejad, Kambiz ^a   Shadnia, Shahin ^b   Ziyapour, Behrad ^c   Brent, Jeffrey ^d  

^a LEGAL MEDICINE RESEARCH CENTER   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM PHOSPHIDE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; PANTOPRAZOLE; STREPTOKINASE;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FLUID THERAPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTOXICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHINES; POISONING; STREPTOKINASE;

EID: 70350454876     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650903285657     Document Type: Letter

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