Citation

Vendramin A, Brvar M. Toxicon 2014; 90: 269-272.

Affiliation

Poison Control Centre, Division of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška cesta 7, Slovenia. Electronic address: miran.brvar@kclj.si.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.toxicon.2014.08.067

PMID

25173077

Abstract

A. muscaria contains more excitatory ibotenic acid and less depressant muscimol compared to A. pantherina. In this study A. muscaria poisoned patients were more often confused (26/32, p=0.01) and agitated (20/32, p=0.03) compared to those poisoned with A. pantherina (8/17 and 5/17). Patients poisoned with A. pantherina were more commonly comatose (5/17) compared to those poisoned with A. muscaria (2/32) (p=0.03). In conclusion, the so-called ibotenic or pantherina-muscaria syndrome might be divided into two subtypes.

Language: en