[Lethal aqueous pericardium-tamponade after overtreatment by forced diuresis (author's transl)]

A case of lethal pericardium-tamponade is reported as a consequence of excessive hydration in a 19-year-old woman. According to her own report, she took 8-10 tablets of Adumbran and Persumbran in drug form in an attempt to commit suicide. Neither clinical observation, the obduction, histological findings nor chemotoxicological analysis are capable of explaining a deadly poisoning by these tablets. This paper points to the necessity of most careful controls that are required even for adults in regard to the electrolytic and hydrological balances.