Severe mushroom poisoning due to amatoxin in children

Liver transplantation: a life-saving procedure following amatoxin mushroom poisoning.

In April 2013, a 48-year-old man and his wife picked wild mushrooms near Shing Mun Reservoir. After eating the cooked mushrooms, they developed symptoms resembling gastroenteritis and attended accident and emergency department (A&E) around 12 hours later. The husband was alert with normal blood test results at 18 hours following ingestion. Thirty hours later, his total bilirubin increased to 54...

Hyperprocalcitonemia due to mushroom poisoning.

Severe Methemoglobinemia due to Sodium Nitrite Poisoning

Case. We report a case of severe methemoglobinemia due to sodium nitrite poisoning. A 28-year-old man was brought to our emergency department because of transient loss of consciousness and cyanosis. He was immediately intubated and ventilated with 100% oxygen. A blood test revealed a methemoglobin level of 92.5%. Outcome. We treated the patient with gastric lavage, activated charcoal, and methy...

“Last supper with mushroom soup”: a case report of amatoxin poisoning

INTRODUCTION Unlike Europeans’ pastime of mushroom hunting or lactovegetarian's craze for "organic " food (1), in Himalayan developing nations like Nepal, either poor man's delicacy or hunger, often drives people living in hills to forage for wild mushrooms. In Nepal, unnumbered and medically unpublished small epidemics of mushroom poisoning take a heavy death toll annually. The present case de...

Mushroom Poisoning

From Department of Emergency Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Address for reprints: Dr. Tzong-Luen Wang, Department of Emergency Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, No 95, Wen Chang Road, Taipei, Taiwan Received: Sep 5 2004. Revised: Sep 25 2004. Accepted: Oct 5 2004. TEL: 886-2-28389425 FAX: 886-2-28353547 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Wild mu...