Common yew intoxication: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Taxine alkaloids cause fatal poisoning, in particular due to the compound’s toxic effect on the cardiovascular apparatus. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 39-year-old Caucasian man with common yew intoxication for whom cardiopulmonary resuscitation using all available metho...

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Autores principales: Vališ, Martin, Kočí, Jaromír, Tuček, David, Lutonský, Tomas, Kopová, Jana, Bartoń, Petr, Vyšata, Oldřich, Krajíčková, Dagmar, Korábečný, Jan, Masopust, Jiří, Klzo, Ludovít
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24383932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-4
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author Vališ, Martin
Kočí, Jaromír
Tuček, David
Lutonský, Tomas
Kopová, Jana
Bartoń, Petr
Vyšata, Oldřich
Krajíčková, Dagmar
Korábečný, Jan
Masopust, Jiří
Klzo, Ludovít
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Kočí, Jaromír
Tuček, David
Lutonský, Tomas
Kopová, Jana
Bartoń, Petr
Vyšata, Oldřich
Krajíčková, Dagmar
Korábečný, Jan
Masopust, Jiří
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description INTRODUCTION: Taxine alkaloids cause fatal poisoning, in particular due to the compound’s toxic effect on the cardiovascular apparatus. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 39-year-old Caucasian man with common yew intoxication for whom cardiopulmonary resuscitation using all available methods, although delayed and extended, was successful. CONCLUSIONS: Extended and delayed cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be used successfully to treat common yew intoxication.
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spelling pubmed-39175212014-02-08 Common yew intoxication: a case report Vališ, Martin Kočí, Jaromír Tuček, David Lutonský, Tomas Kopová, Jana Bartoń, Petr Vyšata, Oldřich Krajíčková, Dagmar Korábečný, Jan Masopust, Jiří Klzo, Ludovít J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Taxine alkaloids cause fatal poisoning, in particular due to the compound’s toxic effect on the cardiovascular apparatus. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 39-year-old Caucasian man with common yew intoxication for whom cardiopulmonary resuscitation using all available methods, although delayed and extended, was successful. CONCLUSIONS: Extended and delayed cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be used successfully to treat common yew intoxication. BioMed Central 2014-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3917521/ /pubmed/24383932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-4 Text en Copyright © 2014 Vališ et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lutonský, Tomas
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Bartoń, Petr
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Krajíčková, Dagmar
Korábečný, Jan
Masopust, Jiří
Klzo, Ludovít
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