[Threatening arrhythmia by uncommon digitalic toxicosis (author's transl)].
The authors describe the case of a 38 year old woman who ate some buds of "Helleborus viridis" collected in the mountains mistaken for wild asparagus. The clinical patterns were like in the digitalic toxicosis: the woman presented both ventricular and supraventricular threatening arrhythmias, gastro-enteric troubles, systemic hypotension. The patient improved with the glucose, potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate infusion and intravenous xylocaine. The authors conclude that in case of patient with threatening arrhythmias of unknown genesis it is useful to pay attention to the wild vegetables ingestion.
D000328:Adult; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010939:Plant Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal
Aritmia minacciosa da non comune intossicazione alimentare.