Lethal effects of normeperidine. |
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Authors: | K Jiraki |
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Affiliation: | Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office, Cleveland, OH 44106. |
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Abstract: | Normeperidine, having a longer half-life than meperidine, can accumulate faster. Its excitatory neurotoxicity is manifest with administration of multiple meperidine doses or in cases of renal failure. This is a report of the lethal effects of normeperidine in a patient with renal failure who had abused meperidine. |
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