Abrus Precatorius Poisoning and Central Pontine Myelinolysis

Accidental poisoning with Abrus precatorius (AP) can rarely produce neurological complication due to its toxic principle “Abrin”. The authors report such a case in a 2-year old child, who subsequently developed central pontine myelinolysis, an association, to the best of the author’s knowledge, has...

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Autores principales: Sarkar, Sumantra, Basu, Kaushambi, Das, Jayati, Datta, Supratim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29675076
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_84_17
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author Sarkar, Sumantra
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description Accidental poisoning with Abrus precatorius (AP) can rarely produce neurological complication due to its toxic principle “Abrin”. The authors report such a case in a 2-year old child, who subsequently developed central pontine myelinolysis, an association, to the best of the author’s knowledge, has never been reported in literature.
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spelling pubmed-58905572018-04-19 Abrus Precatorius Poisoning and Central Pontine Myelinolysis Sarkar, Sumantra Basu, Kaushambi Das, Jayati Datta, Supratim J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Accidental poisoning with Abrus precatorius (AP) can rarely produce neurological complication due to its toxic principle “Abrin”. The authors report such a case in a 2-year old child, who subsequently developed central pontine myelinolysis, an association, to the best of the author’s knowledge, has never been reported in literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5890557/ /pubmed/29675076 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_84_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890557/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_84_17
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