Citation

Suchard JR, Wallace KL, Gerkin RD. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1998; 32(6): 742-744.

Affiliation

Department of Medical Toxicology, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA. jsuchard@samaritan.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9832674

Abstract

A 41-year-old woman ingested apricot kernels purchased at a health food store and became weak and dyspneic within 20 minutes. The patient was comatose and hypothermic on presentation but responded promptly to antidotal therapy for cyanide poisoning. She was later treated with a continuous thiosulfate infusion for persistent metabolic acidosis. This is the first reported case of cyanide toxicity from apricot kernel ingestion in the United States since 1979.

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