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Prognostic Factors of Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning in Urmia: A-five-years Cross-sectional Study

International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, 2021
Background: Aluminum phosphide is a highly toxic fungicide. It causes such severe adverse effects as cardiac arrhythmias, metabolic acidosis, acute renal failure, shock, and even death.
Mohammad Majidi, Mohammad Jamalpour, Solmaz Nekoueifard   +2 more
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Managing aluminum phosphide poisonings

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock, 2011
Aluminum phosphide (AlP) is a cheap, effective and commonly used pesticide. However, unfortunately, it is now one of the most common causes of poisoning among agricultural pesticides. It liberates lethal phosphine gas when it comes in contact either with atmospheric moisture or with hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
Gurjar, Mohan, Baronia, Arvind K, Azim, Afzal, Sharma, Kalpana   +3 more
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A Rare but Potentially Fatal Poisoning; Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning

Journal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, 2017
Phosphide, a very toxic gas, is used in our country as aluminium phosphide tablets impregnated in clay. It is widely used since it has a very high diffusion capacity, whereby it can eradicate all living creatures in any form of their life cycle and does ...
Orkun Tolunay, Tamer Çelik, Gülperi Yücel, Ulaş Özdemir, Anıl Atmış, Asena Sucu, Ümit Çelik   +6 more
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Aluminum Phosphide Toxicity

Indian Pediatrics Case Reports, 2022
Background: Aluminum phosphides (ALPs) are still being used in developing countries as a pesticide despite the fact that ingestion and/or inhalation can cause significant morbidity and mortality. The generation of phosphine when ALP comes in contact with water leads to the blockade of electron transfer, which inhibits oxidative
Hatice Feray Ari, Murat Turhan, Huseyin Baspinar, Berna Kirhan, Murat Ari   +4 more
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Aluminum phosphide poisoning

Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2015
Over the last three decades, aluminum phosphide has emerged as an important pesticide agent being sued for self-harm in India is well as other countries. High mortality is due to severe mitochondrial dysfunction leading to disruption of cellular respiration leading to tissue hypoxia and organ dysfunction.
Ashish Bhalla, Surjit Singh
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An Epidemiological Study of Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning in Patients Admitted in a Specialized Poisoning Referral Center in Northern Iran [PDF]

Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2011
Background and objectives : In recent decades, aluminum phosphide pills are used for suicide attempts in Tehran and other parts of the country. Aluminum phosphide is a solid inorganic phosphide that because of its involvement in entire the body organs ...
Ali Banagozar Mohammadi, Maryam Zaare Nahandi   +1 more
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Epidemiology of Acute Poisoning in Mazandaran Province, Iran

International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, 2020
Background: Poisoning is a critical medical emergency worldwide. The present study aimed to determine the characteristics and treatment outcomes of patients admitted to the poisoning department.
Jamal Rezaei, Ebrahim Nasiri, Mostafa Moalemi, Sohrab Padashi, Mahbobeh Hatami   +4 more
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Successful use of ECLS in cardiopulmonary failure due to aluminum phosphide poising

Egyptian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2016
The use of ECLS in the treatment of poisoned patients has been recently reviewed by de Lange et al. [1], but a case of aluminum phosphide poising supported by ECLS has not been described yet.
M. Mendonca, C. Tamas, L. Kiraly, H. Talo, J. Rajah   +4 more
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Human Zinc Phosphide Exposure in Lebanon: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Toxicity from rodenticides such as metal phosphides is common worldwide, particularly in developing countries where consumers have access to unlabeled and uncontrolled insecticides and pesticides.
Hani Hamade, Aynur Sahin, Carol Sukhn, Chady El Tawil, Jennifer Rizk, Ziad Kazzi, Tharwat El Zahran   +6 more
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Mysterious death due to accidental inhalation of phosphine – A unique case study

Forensic Science International: Reports, 2022
Aluminum phosphide, an insecticide used to preserve grains, is commonly used as a suicidal poison in India and its neighboring countries. It’s toxic effect is not only discernable to insects and rodents but equally extends to human population. This study
Rakesh Kumar Singh, Santosh Tripathy, Sweta Sinha, Kavita Goyal, Sri Narain   +4 more
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