[Attempted murder with phenprocoumon (marcumar)(author's transl)].
The first known case of attempted murder by means of a coumarine-containing drug, administered by a nurse to her husband, is reported. Small doses of phenprocoumon were regularly added to his food or drinks. He was admitted to hospital with a severe haemorrhagic diathesis which, at first, was thought to be a familial haemorrhagic disease, his mother having died of recurrent hypoprothrombinaemia a few years earlier, the cause of her bleeding trouble never having been established. The wife was sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003374:Coumarins / Q000506:poisoning*; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006474:Hemorrhagic Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced*; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007020:Hypoprothrombinemias; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D010644:Phenprocoumon / Q000506:poisoning*
D003374:Coumarins; D010644:Phenprocoumon
Mordversuch mit Phenprocumon (Marcumar). Krankenschwester verursacht "familiäre Blutungsneigung"