Seizures in patients with acute pesticide intoxication, with a focus on glufosinate ammonium

• Published in: Human & experimental toxicology Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 331 - 337
• Main Authors: Park, S, Kim, DE, Park, SY, Gil, HW, Hong, SY
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.04.2018; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aminobutyrates - poisoning; Ammonium; Anticonvulsants - therapeutic use; Chi-Square Distribution; Clinical aspects; Female; Glufosinate; Glycine; Glycine - analogs & derivatives; Glycine - poisoning; Herbicides - poisoning; Hospitals, University; Humans; Incidence; Ingestion; Intoxication; Logistic Models; Male; Medical records; Middle Aged; Mortality; Motivation; Multivariate Analysis; Neurotoxicity Syndromes - diagnosis; Neurotoxicity Syndromes - drug therapy; Neurotoxicity Syndromes - etiology; Neurotoxicity Syndromes - mortality; Patients; Pesticides; Pyrethrins - poisoning; Regression analysis; Republic of Korea; Risk Factors; Seizing; Seizures; Seizures - chemically induced; Seizures - diagnosis; Seizures - drug therapy; Seizures - mortality; Statistical analysis; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; glufosinate ammonium; pesticide intoxication; Seizure; suicide
• ISSN: 0960-3271; 1477-0903; 1477-0903
• DOI: 10.1177/0960327117705427

The incidence and clinical aspects of seizures remain to be elucidated in patients with acute pesticide intoxication. The present study included subjects who ingested pesticide with the intention of committing suicide and were treated at Soonchunhyang University Hospital (Cheonan, Korea) between Jan...