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Acute intoxication due to tert-amyl alcohol--a case report
Jacek Sein Anand1, Joanna Gieroń2, Wojciech Lechowicz2
1Pomeranian Centre of Toxicology, Gdansk, Poland; Department of Clinical Toxicology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Abstract:
We presented a case of 28 year-old male, who was found in a deep coma complicated with acute respiratory failure because of recreational intoxication with tert-amyl alcohol (TAA). The TAA blood level at the admission was 83 μg/mL determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). In the last few months popularity of TAA among alcohol and drug addicted people in Europe is still growing. The main reasons of these are: self-healing of addiction, low price of this xenobiotic compare to alcohol, and problem to detect this xenobiotic in generally used screening tests.