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BARQUERO, Marco  e  BOLANOS, Pamela. Falla hepática aguda y otros trastornos causados por el consumo de Amanita phalloides. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.1, pp.96-102. ISSN 2215-5287.

Despite it is a rare disease, the fungus poisoning can be lethal, mainly if it is with Amanita phalloides. This fungus have toxins that produce gastrointestinal alterations and acute liver failure. The amatoxin is one of its main components, its letal dosis is 0,1mg/kg and it doesn’t have a established treatment, the outcome depends of the elapsed time between the ingest of the fungus and the medical treatment, which can be even a liver transplant.

Palavras-chave : Active liver failure; Amanita phalloides; amatixines.

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