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Establishment and validation of a nomogram model for prediction of clinical outcomes in patients with amanita phalloides poisoning [PDF]

Heliyon
Amanita phalloides poisoning, renowned for its high mortality rates, is one of the most serious food safety issue in certain regions worldwide. Assessment of prognosis and development of more efficacious therapeutic strategies are critical importance for
Congyu Lu, Lianhong Zou
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Medical error in treatment of Amanita phalloides poisoning in pre-hospital care [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background Geopolitical and climate changes form the background of the current migration crisis. It has many faces. One of them are the tragic cases of poisoning of refugees due to eating wild forest mushrooms for socioeconomic reasons in the Western and
Anna Smędra, Katarzyna Wochna, Dariusz Zawadzki, Jarosław Berent   +3 more
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Unexpected Amanita phalloides-Induced Hematotoxicity—Results from a Retrospective Study [PDF]

Toxins
Introduction: Amanita phalloides poisoning is a serious health problem with a mortality rate of 10–40%. Poisonings are characterized by severe liver and kidney toxicity. The effect of Amanita phalloides poisonings on hematological parameters has not been
Miranda Visser, Willemien F. J. Hof, Astrid M. Broek, Amanda van Hoek, Joyce J. de Jong, Daan J. Touw, Bart G. J. Dekkers   +6 more
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Is Amanita phalloides Nephrotoxicity due to Mitochondrial Toxicity? [PDF]

Kidney Medicine
Amanita phalloides-related kidney toxicity is poorly documented and remains to be elucidated. Herein, we describe the case of a 43-year old patient who presented with severe liver failure following the ingestion of Amanita phalloides.
Jules Weinhard, Justine Serre, Perrine Frère, Clovis Adam, Marie Camille Lafargue, David Buob, Cédric Rafat   +6 more
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Uniparental Inheritance and Recombination as Strategies to Avoid Competition and Combat Muller’s Ratchet among Mitochondria in Natural Populations of the Fungus Amanita phalloides [PDF]

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Uniparental inheritance of mitochondria enables organisms to avoid the costs of intracellular competition among potentially selfish organelles. By preventing recombination, uniparental inheritance may also render a mitochondrial lineage effectively ...
Yen-Wen Wang, Holly Elmore, Anne Pringle
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Determination of amatoxins and phallotoxins in Amanita phalloides mushrooms from northeastern Portugal by HPLC-DAD-MS [PDF]

Mycologia, 2015
Amanita phalloides is a toxic mushroom responsible for the majority of deaths occurring after mushrooms ingestion, mainly due to amatoxins. In the present study the contents and distribution of the major amatoxins and phallotoxins in different tissues of
Juliana Garcia, Ana Oliveira, Paula Guedes de Pinho   +2 more
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Exhaustive extraction of cyclopeptides from Amanita phalloides: Guidelines for working with complex mixtures of secondary metabolites [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Understanding plant‐insect interactions is an active area of research in both ecology and evolution. Much attention has been focused on the impact of secondary metabolites in the host plant or fungi on these interactions.
Clare H. Scott Chialvo, Logan H. Griffin, Laura K. Reed, Lukasz Ciesla   +3 more
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Acute Liver Failure Caused by Amanita phalloides Poisoning [PDF]

International Journal of Hepatology, 2012
Mushroom poisoning is a relatively rare cause of acute liver failure (ALF). The present paper analyzes the pathogenesis, clinical features, prognostic indicators, and therapeutic strategies of ALF secondary to ingestion of Amanita phalloides, which ...
Luca Santi, Caterina Maggioli, Marianna Mastroroberto, Manuel Tufoni, Lucia Napoli, Paolo Caraceni   +5 more
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Profiling of Amatoxins and Phallotoxins in the Genus Lepiota by Liquid Chromatography Combined with UV Absorbance and Mass Spectrometry [PDF]

Toxins, 2014
Species in the mushroom genus Lepiota can cause fatal mushroom poisonings due to their content of amatoxins such as α-amanitin. Previous studies of the toxin composition of poisonous Lepiota species relied on analytical methods of low sensitivity or ...
R. Michael Sgambelluri, Sara Epis, Davide Sassera, Hong Luo, Evan R. Angelos, Jonathan D. Walton   +5 more
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Diagnosis and Management of Amanita Phalloides Toxicity in the Emergency Department Observation Unit: A Case Report [PDF]

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Mushroom toxicity is an important etiology of acute liver injury in a patient with gastrointestinal symptoms. Case Report: We present the case of a male patient presenting to the emergency department (ED) with gastrointestinal distress who ...
Matthew Tobias, Mary McGoldrick, Mary Rometti, Jessica Laub, Grant Wei, Denise Fernandez   +5 more
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