Amitriptyline overdose complicated by intestinal pseudo-obstruction and caecal perforation

Open Access

1 December 1989

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal

Vol. 65 (770) , 948-949
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.65.770.948

Abstract

We report the progress of a patient who presented following the ingestion of ibuprofen in overdose. He survived despite developing an extremely severe metabolic acidosis.

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