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Toxicological findings after fatal amitriptyline self-poisoning
A Tracqui1, P Kintz, S Ritter-Lohner
1Institut de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Human & Experimental Toxicology
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
A case of fatal self-poisoning with amitriptyline is reported. Both the drug and its metabolite nortriptyline were quantified in several post-mortem tissues and fluids, including vitreous humor. Results are discussed in the light of the existing literature.