"Last supper with mushroom soup": a case report of amatoxin poisoning

“Last supper with mushroom soup”: a case report of amatoxin poisoning

INTRODUCTION Unlike Europeans’ pastime of mushroom hunting or lactovegetarian's craze for "organic " food (1), in Himalayan developing nations like Nepal, either poor man's delicacy or hunger, often drives people living in hills to forage for wild mushrooms. In Nepal, unnumbered and medically unpublished small epidemics of mushroom poisoning take a heavy death toll annually. The present case de...

Liver transplantation: a life-saving procedure following amatoxin mushroom poisoning.

In April 2013, a 48-year-old man and his wife picked wild mushrooms near Shing Mun Reservoir. After eating the cooked mushrooms, they developed symptoms resembling gastroenteritis and attended accident and emergency department (A&E) around 12 hours later. The husband was alert with normal blood test results at 18 hours following ingestion. Thirty hours later, his total bilirubin increased to 54...

A Case of Mushroom Poisoning

Last Supper for Mosquitoes

Cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum II (CDDP) has been recognized as one of the most active drugs against malignant tumours including ovarian cancer. However, CDDP is a toxic drug causing emesis, renal failure, hearing loss, neuropathy and anaemia. In view of these toxicities many investigators have attempted to develop new platinum analogues which retain anti-tumour activity with less toxicity. Among...

Acute methotrexate poisoning with diffuse rash: a case report

Background: Methotrexate is an anti-metabolite drug and one of the folic acid analog that it can play an important and functional role in the treatment of many malignancies and inflammatory diseases. However, the development of petechiae (maculopapular rash) is a very rare complication. Case Presentation: The patient was a 77 years old woman, Aryan race, who was known a case of severe and prog...