Fatal seizures associated with trimipramine poisoning

✍ Scribed by Henrik Druid; Per Holmgren

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 390 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0379-0738
• DOI: 10.1016/0379-0738(91)90173-g

✦ Synopsis

The present report describes a witnessed, fatal attack of seizures. Very high levels of trimipramine were found in the blood collected at autopsy. The cause of death would most likely have been misinterpreted as a suicidal intoxication if the attack had not been witnessed. Conversely, if toxicologic examination had not been undertaken, the fatality would probably have been registered as epilepsia.