Therapeutic plasma exchange in amitriptyline intoxication: Case report and review of the literature

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-185

  Sari, Ismail ^a   Turkcuer, Ibrahim ^a   Erurker, Tuba ^a   Serinken, Mustafa ^a   Seyit, Murat ^a   Keskin, Ali ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALBUMIN; AMITRIPTYLINE; BICARBONATE;

ADULT; ALKALINIZATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CASE REPORT; COMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PLASMA PROTEIN BINDING; PLASMA VOLUME; PLASMAPHERESIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; STOMACH LAVAGE; T WAVE; TENDON REFLEX; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLASMAPHERESIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053452424     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: 18781683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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