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Management of Liver Failure Secondary to Mushroom Poisoning in Children

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Intensive Care in Childhood

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 25))

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A little less than one hundred species of mushrooms, distributed worldwide, are poisonous to humans. The most famous of them in Europe and the United States is the Amanita phalloides, which, in these countries, accounts for more than 90 percent of the fatalities [1, 2]. However other species may cause severe poisoning and are found in the genera Amanita, Galerina and Lepiota all being grouped under the name of cyclopeptide mushrooms [3, 4].

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  1. S. Clément de Cléty
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  1. Dept. of Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Hospital Rotterdam, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, NL-3015, GJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Dick Tibboel

  2. Dept. of Pediatrics, Subdivision of Pediatric, Intensive Care, Sophia Children’s Hospital, University Hospital Rotterdam, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, NL-3015, GJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Edwin van der Voort

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de Cléty, S.C., Moulin, D. (1996). Management of Liver Failure Secondary to Mushroom Poisoning in Children. In: Tibboel, D., van der Voort, E. (eds) Intensive Care in Childhood. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80227-0_44

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