scholarly journals Abnormal Electrocardiogram in Patients with Acute Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning

Author(s):  
Amine Ali ◽  
Maha Louriz
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 5041
Author(s):  
Farkhondeh Jamshidi ◽  
Ahmad Ghorbani ◽  
Sina Darvishi*

The abuse of some pesticides especially to suicide is one of the current problems of pesticides. Aluminum phosphide induced poisoning usually happens to suicide and sometimes it is due to accidental occupational exposure and in a few cases it has some criminal intensions. This study is conducted to evaluate patients poisoned with aluminum phosphide. In the present study the medical records of cases of poisoning with rice tablets (aluminum phosphide) hospitalized in Ahvaz Razi hospital is studied. Accordingly, a checklist is prepared that included demographic information of patients (age, gender) and information on patient records (information on poisoning) are completed using the patients’ medical records. The analysis of data is done by SPSS V22. 18 patients poisoned with rice tablet (aluminum phosphide) are studied. Results of the study show that 11 patients are male and seven are female. The mean patient age is 27.06 ±8.04 years that is 28 ±9 and 25 ±6.02 in men and women respectively. Statistical tests show no statistically significant difference in mean age in both genders (P> 0.05). Among patients, 11 subjects took aluminum phosphide to attempt suicide and 3 cases took it unintentionally and of course the reason is not mentioned in four cases. Among the patients who tried to commit suicide by taking aluminum phosphide, 6 cases are male and 5 cases are female that no statistically significant difference is observed between the genders in this respect (P> 0.05). In addition to the study of the complications caused by this poisoning and its mortality, it is recommended to responsible authorities to provide the necessary educations and treatments to prevent this type of poisoning.


Author(s):  
Deepak Yadav ◽  
Rajasri Bhattacharyya ◽  
Dibyajyoti Banerjee

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
MH Goharbari ◽  
F Taghaddosinejad ◽  
M Arefi ◽  
M Sharifzadeh ◽  
M Mojtahedzadeh ◽  
...  

Background: In aluminum phosphide (AlP) poisoning, death is mainly due to cardiovascular failure and refractory acute heart failure. There is a lot of evidence showing thyroid hormones have cardioprotective effects. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of oral liothyronine in the treatment of AlP poisoning. Methods: Twenty-four patients from intensive care unit of Baharloo Hospital, Tehran, Iran, were included based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. They were randomly divided into two parallel groups of 12 cases and 12 controls. Intervention in the case group was administration of 50 µg liothyronine via nasogastric tube after gastric lavage, in the first 6 h of poisoning. In both groups, the routine treatment of AlP poisoning was performed. Blood samples were prepared at the beginning of the study and after 12 h. Patients were followed up till discharge from the hospital or death. Results: The findings demonstrated that oral liothyronine was able to significantly improve systolic blood pressure, arterial blood pH, and total thiol molecules and also could decrease lipid peroxidation, increase catalase activity, and prevent further decline in total antioxidant capacity. Conclusion: Liothyronine administration is effective in controlling AlP poisoning and can improve patients’ outcome.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1053-1059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asieh Karimani ◽  
Amir Hooshang Mohammadpour ◽  
Mohammad Reza Zirak ◽  
Ramin Rezaee ◽  
Bruno Megarbane ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 462-462
Author(s):  
Seyed Farzad Hosseini ◽  
Mehdi Forouzesh ◽  
Mohsen Maleknia ◽  
Samira Valiyari ◽  
Mahmood Maniati ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-330
Author(s):  
Akshay Sharma ◽  
Sandeep Attawar ◽  
Sandeep Dewan ◽  
Prabhat Dutta ◽  
Manuj Bansal ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 979-981 ◽  
Author(s):  
SK Verma ◽  
S Ahmad ◽  
N Shirazi ◽  
SP Barthwal ◽  
D Khurana ◽  
...  

There have been no case reports on aluminum phosphide–induced pancreatitis in the literature available. In this report, we present the case of a young man who developed acute pancreatitis and probably acute myocarditis following ingestion of aluminum phosphide pellets in the absence of the usual risk factors and after exclusion of other possible causes of pancreatitis. In the absence of re-challenge, we put forth the probable causative association of pancreatitis with aluminum phosphide or phosphine gas, its active pesticidal component.


Author(s):  
Ali Banagozar Mohammadi ◽  
Soraya Mohammadian ◽  
Maryam Zaare Nahandi

In developing countries Aluminum Phosphide is the third cause of mortality due to contact with pesticides. This substance produces phosphine gas in contact with water or moist air or acid which causes cell death through cellular respiration disorder in various organs of the body (1),(2),(3). In recent decades Aluminum Phosphide tablets are easily available and widely used for suicidal attempts by Iranian population (4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9),(10),(11),(12). Aluminum phosphide through involvement with almost all vital organs of the body causes different clinical features (1),(10) for example the poisoned patients catch pulmonary symptoms such as tachypnea, cyanosis, pulmonary rales bilaterally, ALIARDS, pulmonary edema, atelectasis, dyspnea, respiratory failure, cough, shortness of breath, tightness in chest (3),(5),(12), pleural effusion (13) and acute respiratory arrest (14).


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