Russell Jason L, Spiller Henry A, Baker Daniel D
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA ; Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USA ; Central Ohio Poison Center, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
Case Rep Med. 2015;2015:369707. doi: 10.1155/2015/369707. Epub 2015 Oct 13.
Carbamazepine is a widely used anticonvulsant. Its metabolite, carbamazepine-10,11-epoxide, has been found to display similar anticonvulsant and neurotoxic properties. While the ratio of parent to metabolite concentration varies significantly, at therapeutic doses the epoxide concentration is generally about 20% of the parent. We report a case of fatal carbamazepine overdose in which the epoxide metabolite concentration was found to be 450% higher than the parent compound, suggesting a potential role for metabolite quantification in severe toxicity.
卡马西平是一种广泛使用的抗惊厥药。其代谢产物卡马西平-10,11-环氧化物已被发现具有类似的抗惊厥和神经毒性特性。虽然母体与代谢产物浓度的比例差异很大,但在治疗剂量下,环氧化物浓度通常约为母体的20%。我们报告一例卡马西平过量致死病例,其中发现环氧化物代谢产物浓度比母体化合物高450%,这表明代谢产物定量在严重毒性中可能发挥作用。