ingestion and inhalation of phosphine are 2 forms of toxicity and their clinical manifestation is extremely wide. a 22-year-old girl was admitted with complaints of nausea, vomiting and epigastric pain after eating lunch. she had a history of celiac disease. on arrival, she was alert and hemodynamically stable. there was not any abdominal tenderness or guarding. food poisoning treatment initiat...

background: intoxication with aluminum phosphide has been prevalent in iran recently. lab confirmation of the poisoning is needed in clinical and post-mortem settings. present study was conducted to determine efficiency and validity of silver nitrate test for detection of aluminum phosphide in samples. methods: information about dead patients with history of aluminum phosphide poisoning referre...

abstract      background and objective: aluminum phosphide (alp) is a solid non-organic phosphide with dark gray or dark yellow crystals. it reacts with stomach acid after ingestion and causes phosphine gas to be released. it is thought that phosphine causes toxicity from enzymatic interference and may even lead to cell death. this study aimed to investigate the effects of poisoning with rice t...

purpose: to evaluate corneal endothelial cells of donors who died from aluminum phosphide intoxication. methods: endothelial cell count and quality of eight corneas from four donors with aluminum phosphide intoxication were evaluated by slit lamp biomicroscopy and specular microscopy at the eye bank of i.r. iran. confocal scan examination was carried out only in one of the recipients. results: ...

  Background: Aluminum phosphide is the common cause of poisoning in adults in India, with a very high case fatality ratio. We studied five patients of aluminum phosphide poisoning with polyserositis. Methods: We enrolled all patients with aluminum phosphide poisoning presenting to emergency medical department, at a tertiary care hospital in northwestern India from January to July 2006. These p...

For 1982 1992, records from the California Pesticide Illness Surveillance Program (PISP) showed 210 cases associated with exposure to phosphine gas and solid formulations of aluminum and zinc phosphide and 205 cases had sufficient information to retain in the data analysis. Of the cases with sufficient information, 179 (87.3%) cases involved isolated exposure to aluminum phosphide and 3 involve...

background: acute intoxication with alp is extremely lethal. the present study was conducted to determine the range of serum cortisol levels in alp poisoning and its correlation with patient outcome. methods: this study was carried out on patients who were intoxicated with alp. their demographic data and pertinent findings in their history and physical examination were recorded at the time of a...

aluminum phosphide poisoning (alpp) still has no efficient and approved antidote. supportive care and hemodynamic monitoring are the only choices of treatment. we proposed a new lavage formulation in addition to evaluation of its efficacy and defining the impact of clinical characteristics of patients on their prognosis. during eight months period of time, 120 patients were enrolled to the stud...