Fatality Following Intentional Ingestion of Cerbera odollam Seeds

Seeds from the mangrove plant Cerbera (C.) odollam, known as the “suicide tree,” are responsible for a significant number of plant deaths worldwide but are not well recognized in Western medicine. Cerberin is a cardiac glycoside concentrated in the plant’s seeds, which causes disrupted cardiac elect...

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Autores principales: Misek, Ryan, Allen, Glenn, LeComte, Valerie, Mazur, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30083638
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2018.5.38345

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