Rodenticide ingestion is an important cause of acute hepatotoxicity in Tamil Nadu, southern India.
Ramkumar GovindarajanGanesan RamamoorthyRevathy Marimuthu ShanmugamSumathi BavanandamManimaran MurugesanChitra ShanmugamAravind ArumugamVaishnavi Priyaa ChellamuthuRajalakshmi Kandasamy VenkatrajKavitha SampathkumarPoppy RejoiceKandasamy Alias KumarShafique AdamaliKannan MariappanRamani RathnavelVijai Shankar Chidambara ManivasagamArulselvan VelusamySenthilvadivu ArumugamThasneem Taj ElikkottilAnand Vimal DevMousumi SenAlagammai PalaniappanAllwin James DorairajChandan Kumar KedarisettyJayanthi VenkataramanMugilan KarthikeyanAravindh SomasundaramArulraj RamakrishnanVijaya Prakash MadeshJoy VargheseDheeraj Kumar AnupaVenkatakrishnan LeelakrishnanMukundan SwaminathanRavindra KantamaneniJeyaraj Ubal DhusNatarajan MuruganKartik NatarajanCaroline SelviHemamala V SaithanyamurthiAmbily NadarajLakshmanan JeyaseelanChundamannil Eapen EapenPublished in: Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (2021)
Rodenticide ingestion was an important cause of acute hepatotoxicity in Tamil Nadu. Most patients were young and one-third had poor outcome. Public health interventions are needed to address this.