Titre : | A fatal chronic ketamine poisoning (2005) |
Auteurs : | TAO L. Y. ; X. P. CHEN ; QIN Z. H. |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Journal of Forensic Sciences (Vol.50, n°1, January 2005) |
Article en page(s) : | 173-176 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | PRO (Produits, mode d'action, méthode de dépistage / Substances, action mode, screening methods) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique CHINEThésaurus mots-clés KETAMINE ; ANESTHESIQUES ; ETUDE DE CAS ; MEDECINE LEGALE ; MORT ; HOMICIDE ; CRIME ; TOXICOLOGIE ; AUTOPSIE |
Résumé : | A few papers in the literature reported incident deaths by acute ketamine poisoning. In this paper, we report an unusual homicide caused by chronic ketamine poisoning. The victim was a 34-year old married woman with no previous medical history (except as reported herein) who died in her own home. The court investigation revealed that she was chronically poisoned by her husband over a period of about one year in an act of homicide. Determination of ketamine concentrations in autopsy specimens was carried out with gas-chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The results showed that ketamine concentration was 21 ug/mL in gastric contents, 3.8 ug/mL in blood and 1.2 ug/mL in urine. The most striking forensic findings were cardiac muscle fibrosis and hyaline degeneration of small arteries in victim's heart, the pathological features of ketamine poisoning previous reported only in animal studies. (Author' s abstract) |
Domaine : | Autres substances / Other substances |
Sous-type de document : | Etude de cas / Case report |
Affiliation : | Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical School of Soochow University, Suzhou, PR China |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | A02193 |
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