First successful curative use of digoxin-specific Fab antibody fragments in a life-threatening coconut crab (Birgus latro L.) poisoning

Toxicon

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1013-1017

  Maillaud, C ^a   Barguil, Y ^a,b   Mikulski, M ^a   Cheze, M ^c   Pivert, C ^d   Deveaux, M ^c   Lapostolle, F ^e  

^a Territorial Hospital of New Caledonia   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA NOUVELLE CALÉDONIE   (New Caledonia)

^c Laboratoire TOXLAB   (France)

^d Hôpital Avicenne ^*  (France)

^e AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Birgus latro L.; Coconut crab; Digoxin specific Fab antibody fragments; Neriifolin; New Caledonia; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

CARDENOLIDE; CREATININE; DIGOXIN ANTIBODY F(AB) FRAGMENT; NICARDIPINE; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CRAB; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; KIDNEY FAILURE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

BIRGUS LATRO; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84864762387     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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