Cardiovascular toxicity associated with yew leaf ingestion

Br Heart J. 1994 Jul;72(1):92-3. doi: 10.1136/hrt.72.1.92.

Abstract

Multiform ventricular tachycardia and self-terminating ventricular fibrillation developed in a 16 year old girl who had deliberately eaten yew tree leaves.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Electrocardiography
  • England
  • Female
  • Heart / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Plant Poisoning*
  • Plants, Toxic*
  • Suicide, Attempted*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / etiology*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / physiopathology
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / etiology*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / physiopathology