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OMU TIP FAKÜLTESİ ACİL SERVİSE BAŞVURAN MANTAR İNTOKSİKASYONLARININ BİR YILLIK DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

  • Levent Altıntop
  • Sevdegül Kabak
  • Murat Yerliyurt
  • Başar Cander

Eurasian J Emerg Med 2004;3(4):23-27

Fungi is a plant which is not containing chlorophil.The kind of fungi which we use as one of our bod staff is not poisonous but there are 30 various kind of poisonous fungi which effect human health,specially when by mistake mix with untoxic species of fungi in the open regions and cause toxication as a diet. Approximately 120 genus of fungi and about 280 species found in Turkey.in our country the intoxication of fungi happened more closely inspite of this,the matter was not well researched between 2002-2003 we check up carefully 88 patients who came to our Emergency Medicine department: Patients complaint noted as the following percentage 86% suffering nausea,79 % suffering vomit, 40% suffering abdominal pain. 80 of them recovered and this charged from our hospital, 5 of them need liver transplantation and we sent them to the responsible reforming centres. 2 of them liver failure high enzym and PT,PTT, INR levels noted die. We compared own research with the other researches we observed that: In our region the intoxication of fungi is closely seen happened and registred.

Keywords: Mushroom intoxication, Liver failure