@article{ref1,
title="Confirmation of oleander poisoning by HPLC/MS",
journal="International journal of legal medicine",
year="1998",
author="Tracqui, A. and Kintz, P. and Branche, F. and Ludes, Bertrand",
volume="111",
number="1",
pages="32-34",
abstract="A non-fatal case of Nerium oleander (common oleander) self-poisoning in a 45-year-old female is presented. Initial symptoms were nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, phosphenes, cardiovascular shock and sinus brady-cardia. Blood and urine were assayed for oleandrin, the major cardiac glycoside of N. oleander, using a highly specific HPLC/MS procedure. The blood concentration of oleandrin at admission was 1.1 ng/ml. This is the first report of an oleander intoxication ascertained by the mass spectrometric identification of oleandrin in blood. HPLC/MS appears to be the method of choice for the forensic-toxicological investigation of poisonings by cardiac glycosides.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0937-9827",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}