Management of severe theophylline overdosage by charcoal haemoperfusion.
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A 28-year-old unemployed bar manager presented to the Casualty Department at 4.00 am having consumed fifty 400 mg tablets of a slow-release preparation of theophylline ("Uniphylline" Napp Laboratories) three hours previously. An asthmatic since childhood, he had been taking 400 mg of this preparation daily for the previous year. There was no past psychiatric history and the taking of the overdose of tablets appeared to be a reactionary gesture following a disagreement with a close friend.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 53 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1984