Garett, Gerard and Sweeney, Michael (2010) The serotonin syndrome as a result of mephedrone toxicity. BMJ, bcr0420102925. doi: 10.1136/bcr.04.2010.2925.
External website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC302951...
A 22-year-old male presented to an emergency department by ambulance. His clinical picture included tachycardia, diaphoresis, hypertonia, hyper-reflexia and clonus. The patient became hyperthermic and deteriorated over the next hour. The principal substance ingested was mephedrone and appropriate treatment for the serotonin syndrome resulted in a sustained recovery over 15 h.
B Substances > New (novel) psychoactive substances > Synthetic cathinones > Mephedrone
E Concepts in biomedical areas > Nervous system physiology (brain, neural)
G Health and disease > State of health > Physical health
G Health and disease > Neurological condition / disease (nervous system, brain)
T Demographic characteristics > Young adult
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
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