TY - JOUR PY - 1978// TI - Suicide with beta-methyldigoxin JO - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift A1 - Rietbrock, N. A1 - Wojahn, H. A1 - Weinmann, J. A1 - Hasford, J. A1 - Kuhlmann, J. SP - 1841 EP - 1844 VL - 103 IS - 46 N2 - A 50-year-old woman committed suicide by taking an overdose of beta-methyldigoxin. The interval between swallowing the tablets and death was about 60 minutes. Plasma and tissue samples, taken 163 hours after death, were analysed for glycosides by radioimmunoassay. The plasma-glycoside level was 75.1 ng/ml, in the left ventricular myocardium it was 143.2 ng/g wet-weight. and in the right ventricular myocardium 159.7 ng/g wet-weight. The tissue-plasma ratio for the various parts of the heart varied from 0.8 to 2.1. Death occurred in the early distribution stage.

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