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Mami Nakamura1, Marin Takaso1, Arisa Takeda1
1Department of Legal Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Tsukinowa, Seta, Otsu, Shiga 520-2192, Japan.
Abstract:
Eutylone is a synthetic cathinone that is becoming an increasingly popular drug in the US and Europe. This report describes a fatal case of eutylone intoxication. A 32-year-old man went into cardiac arrest after several minutes of abnormal behavior. Rectal temperature was 37.0 °C at 5 h after death. Autopsy revealed no remarkable injuries apart from several small abrasions and no signs of rhabdomyolysis. Toxicological examination revealed only aripiprazole in the therapeutic range and eutylone. The eutylone concentration in cardiac blood was 4290 ng/g. This case is valuable because it involved fatal intoxication from a single use of eutylone and quantitative analysis, whereas most previous reports of eutylone intoxication have involved a mixture of drugs with limited quantitative analysis.
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