Yellow Phosphorus Poisoning Kumar AS Praveen1, Kumar BA Praveen2,,*, Anupama MP3 1Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, PESIMSR, Kuppam-517425, Andhra Pradesh, India 2Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, PESIMSR, Kuppam-517425, Andhra Pradesh, India 3Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereal Disease, SDUMC, Kolar, Karnataka, India *Corresponding author email id: drpraveenba@gmail.com
Abstract Acute liver failure from yellow phosphorus poisoning is uncommon and has been rarely reported. Firecrackers or rodenticide pastes containing yellow phosphorus may be ingested accidentally or with suicidal intent. Acute poisoning can manifest with features of gastrointestinal tract, hepatic, cardiovascular, central nervous system and renal involvement, which can rapidly progress to multiorgan failure and death. The management is mainly supportive but liver transplantation has been done successfully to salvage the patients of acute liver failure. We report a case of suicidal ingestion of rat killer paste with acute liver failure who succumbed to poisoning. Top Keywords Yellow phosphorus, Poisoning, Acute liver failure, Rodenticide, Warfarin. Top |