Clinical Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Pretilachlor poisoning: A rare case of a herbicide masquerading as organophosphate toxicity

  • Olita Shilpakar,
  • Bipin Karki,
  • Bibek Rajbhandari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3473
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 12
pp. 3506 – 3508

Abstract

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Abstract Acute oral intoxication of pretilachlor, a chloroacetanilide herbicide, in humans can present with similar clinical manifestations of organophosphate toxicity. Clinicians should be aware of such mimickers for proper management of the patient.

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