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Charcoal bezoar. Small-bowel obstruction secondary to amitriptyline overdose therapy
M J Ray1, D R Radin, J D Condie
1Department of Radiology, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center 90033.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Nasogastric administration of activated charcoal is effective in decreasing the half-life of amitriptyline. A case is reported in which this therapy for amitriptyline overdose led to charcoal bezoar formation and small-bowel obstruction. Amitriptyline's atropinic side effects on the gut make this a possible complication in such patients.