Toxicological data in a fatality involving cyamemazine.
A fatality involving cyamemazine, a phenothiazine derivative, is presented. Cyamemazine was formally identified in postmortem blood using an HPLC-DAD screening procedure, and then quantified in some postmortem samples by means of a specific HPLC method. The blood concentration of cyamemazine was 9.8 micrograms/mL. Tissue distribution of cyamemazine is discussed in light of the existing literature.
Tracqui
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Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.
Kintz
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Jamey
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Mangin
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P
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000506:poisoning*; D002423:Cause of Death; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010640:Phenothiazines / Q000506:poisoning*; D013405:Suicide
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D010640:Phenothiazines; C028457:cyamemazine