A Case Study: What Doses of Amanita phalloides and Amatoxins Are Lethal to Humans? Ismail Yilmaz, MD, PhD, Fatih Ermis, MD, Ilgaz Akata, PhD, Ertugrul.

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A Case Study: What Doses of Amanita phalloides and Amatoxins Are Lethal to Humans? Ismail Yilmaz, MD, PhD, Fatih Ermis, MD, Ilgaz Akata, PhD, Ertugrul Kaya, MD Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 491-496 (December 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2015.08.002 Copyright © 2015 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Amanita phalloides (a) fruit body and amyloid spores; (b) spores. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2015 26, 491-496DOI: (10.1016/j.wem.2015.08.002) Copyright © 2015 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Amanita phalloides mushrooms (ripe mature mushroom on the left, ripe young mushroom on the right) that are of similar size and ripeness as the mushrooms the patient said he ate. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2015 26, 491-496DOI: (10.1016/j.wem.2015.08.002) Copyright © 2015 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 3 Progress of the patient’s liver transaminase levels, aspartate aminotransferase (blue line), and alanine aminotransferase (red line). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2015 26, 491-496DOI: (10.1016/j.wem.2015.08.002) Copyright © 2015 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions