Experience of treatment in the Amanita phalloides poisoning (clinical and experimental observations).

Abstract

Intensive care was applied in 13 patients with acute liver insufficiency and different degrees of metabolic encephalopathy due to the ingestion of Amanita phalloides. Twelve of them were subjected to hepatic assist with E.T., in three cases this measure was repeated. Ten recoveries were obtained, which denote, on the basis of the necrosis enzymes and the hepatic histo-pathological aspects from bioptic samplings, the use of the E.T. method, when applied within the first 72 hours. In pigs poisoned with Amanita phalloides, the clinico-biochemical pattern and the histopathological findings are comparable to the observations in man. Electron microscopy demonstrates peculiar lesion in the cytoplasm. The anatomo-pathological findings in the three dead patients show a liver necrosis over the 90% and the presence of cerebral edema.

• Authors: D Galmarini, L Tarenzi, G Cantaluppi, A Pesenti, G Zanandrea, D Girardello, M Doglia, M P Fabiani, P Grigolato, F Radice
• Journal: Current problems in clinical biochemistry (Curr Probl Clin Biochem) Vol. 7 Pg. 129-54 ( 1977) ISSN: 0300-1725 [Print] Switzerland
• PMID: 923278 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Blood Glucose
• Lactates
• Pyruvates
• Ammonia
• Aspartate Aminotransferases
• Alanine Transaminase

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Alanine Transaminase (blood)
• Amanita
• Ammonia (blood)
• Animals
• Aspartate Aminotransferases (blood)
• Biopsy
• Blood Glucose (metabolism)
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Critical Care
• Disease Models, Animal
• Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood
• Female
• Humans
• Lactates (blood)
• Liver (pathology)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Mushroom Poisoning (blood, pathology, therapy)
• Pyruvates (blood)
• Swine