Application of histopathological changes in the lungs and liver of death from Aluminum Phosphide poisoning

Abstract

In developing countries Aluminum Phosphide is the third cause of mortality due to contact with pesticides. This substance produces phosphine gas in contact with water or moist air or acid which causes cell death through cellular respiration disorder in various organs of the body (1),(2),(3). In recent decades Aluminum Phosphide tablets are easily available and widely used for suicidal attempts by Iranian population (4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9),(10),(11),(12). Aluminum phosphide through involvement with almost all vital organs of the body causes different clinical features (1),(10) for example the poisoned patients catch pulmonary symptoms such as tachypnea, cyanosis, pulmonary rales bilaterally, ALIARDS, pulmonary edema, atelectasis, dyspnea, respiratory failure, cough, shortness of breath, tightness in chest (3),(5),(12), pleural effusion (13) and acute respiratory arrest (14).