Citation

Danel VC, Wiart JF, Hardy GA, Vincent FH, Houdret NM. J. Toxicol. Clin. Toxicol. 2001; 39(4): 409-411.

Affiliation

Département Pluridisciplinaire de Médecine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Grenoble, France. VDanel@chu-grenoble.fr

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Marcel Dekker)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11527237

Abstract

A 44-year-old man ingested about 40 flowers of Colchicum autumnale L. The patient presented with nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain 2 hours after ingestion and had diarrhea 14 hours after ingestion. Hematological values remained within normal range. Treatment was mainly supportive. The outcome was favorable. The intoxication was confirmed by high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Maximal colchicine levels were 4.34 ng/mL at 13 hours in plasma and 5.43 ng/mL at 16 hours in erythrocytes. CONCLUSION: We report one of the few symptomatic cases of Colchicum autumnale L. poisoning confirmed by toxicological analysis.

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