Publication: Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning
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2017
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Kathmandu University
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Aluminium phosphide is one of the most common poisons used for suicide in an
agricultural country like India. Death is usually due to myocarditis which occurs
within few hours of ingestion. There are many late complications reported
in medical literature, however toxic effects on the gastrointestinal system,
particularly corrosive action leading to massive haemorrhage is rarely reported.
A 30 year old male developed upper gastrointestinal bleeding on the second day
after consumption of aluminium phosphide. An exploratory laprotomy was done
followed by adhesinolysis, gastrostomy closure with feeding jejunostomy and
drainage. He died after eight days of ingestion. The autopsy findings of this rarely
reported case along with review of literature on corrosive action of Aluminium
Phosphide is discussed.
KEY WORDS
Aluminum phosphide, bleeding, corrosive, mucosal erosion, stomach mucosa
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Behera C,1 Krishna K,1 Arava S2
1Department of Forensic Medicine
2Department of Pathology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi-110029, India
Keywords
Aluminum phosphide, bleeding, corrosive, mucosal erosion, stomach mucosa