A Fatal Case Involving Venlafaxine Intoxication

  • Baeck, Seung-Kyung (Sec. of Drug-Toxicology, Div. Physico-Chemistry, Office of Central Districts, National) ;
  • Jeon, Seok-Hoon (Sec. of Legal-Medicine, Div. of Legal-Medicine, Office of Central Districts, National) ;
  • Kim, Sun-Chung (Sec. of Legal-Medicine, Div. of Legal-Medicine, Office of Central Districts, National) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Woo (Sec. of Legal-Medicine, Div. of Legal-Medicine, Office of Central Districts, National)
  • 발행 : 2003.10.01

초록

This report describes the fatal case of a 13-year-old middle school girl(MSG) whose cause of death might be attributed to a intoxication involving Venlafaxine(VEN). MSG's mother had the history of depression for 11 years. She and her daughter were found dead in the same room of their apartment, with hanged herself. We analyzed the postmortem of MSG which were requested to our institute for the cause of her death. We couldn't get any blood samples from MSG's postmortem. (omitted)

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