title: An infant fatality due to hydroxychloroquine poisoning.
abstract: A 2 1/2-year-old boy was hospitalized following ingestion of an estimated 60 tablets of 200-mg hydroxychloroquine. Upon death from cardiorespiratory arrest, analytes from the stomach, small intestine, liver, and plasma were examined using UV spectroscopy, thin-layer chromatography, and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Results indicate modest drug amounts in the stomach and small intestine, but much higher levels in the blood and liver extracts, suggesting that a considerable overdose was consumed.
authors.affiliation: Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kemmenoe
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D003643:Death; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006801:Humans; D006886:Hydroxychloroquine / Q000506:poisoning*; D008099:Liver / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D006886:Hydroxychloroquine