Citation

Berthault F, Kintz P, Tracqui A, Mangin P. J. Anal. Toxicol. 1997; 21(3): 228-231.

Affiliation

Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Preston Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9171209

Abstract

We report the first case in the literature of fatal betaxolol (Kerlone) self-poisoning. After a single-step liquid-liquid alkaline extraction, betaxolol was identified by a high-performance liquid chromatographic-diode array detection screening procedure and then quantitated in cardiac blood, heart, brain, muscle, spleen, stomach contents, duodenum contents, liver, and kidney. The blood betaxolol concentration was 36 mg/L.

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