Experiment 958415
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Tripterygium wilfordii (CELASTRACEAE) |
| Citation | CAO,YM: MOU,HZ:. (1987). A CASE OF ACUTE POISONING BY TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII.. 25(2) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | A 9-YEAR OLD BOY DIAGNOSED TO HAVE ALLERGIC PURPURA AND PURPURIC NEPHRITIS WAS TREATED WITH DEXAMETHASONE AND 40 DOSES OF THE EXTRACT. THE FIRST 3 DAYS OF TREATMENT WERE UNEVENTFUL. AFTERWARD, HE WAS INADVERTENTLY GIVEN THE DOSES FOR 6 DAYS IN 3 DAYS (DOUBLE DOSE). ON THE NEXT DAY OF THE LAST TREATMANT, THE BOY DEVELOPED CHOKING AS IF A FOREIGN OBJECT WAS CAUGHT IN THE THROAT, NAUSEA, DIARRHEA AND ON THE 3RD DAY, COMA. HIS HEART RATE WAS LOW AND BLOOD PRESSURE UNDETECTABLE. THE ECG SHOWED ST SEGMENT ELEVATION, WHICH BECAME NORMAL AFTER ONE WEEK OF EMERGENCY TREATMENT. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | DECOCTION |