Cardiovascular toxicity associated with yew leaf ingestion.
Multiform ventricular tachycardia and self-terminating ventricular fibrillation developed in a 16 year old girl who had deliberately eaten yew tree leaves.
von der Werth
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Darlington Memorial Hospital, County Durham.
Murphy
J J
JJ
D000293:Adolescent; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D010939:Plant Poisoning; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology