Ricin poisoning causing death after ingestion of herbal medicine

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-317

  Assiri, Abdullah S ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RICIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INTOXICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEMATEMESIS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTESTINE SOUND; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; PLANT PREPARATIONS; POISONS; RICIN;

EID: 84865483163     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2012.315     Document Type: Article

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