Fatal renal failure caused by Cortinarius mushrooms
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Martin Kirchmair & Reinhold Pِder
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Sirs, With interest we read the “Clinical Quiz” recently published in Pediatric Nephrology in which Talmud et al. [1] reported on severe mushroom poisoning caused by Cortinarius orellanoides. They confirmed their clinical findings by observations of basidiospores in the leftovers of the contaminated meals. Unfortunately, the report contains a number of inconsistencies, the most important of which is that although all clinical aspects described by these authors fit well with the Orellanus syndrome, the basidiospores pictured do not represent C. orellanoides spores. The spores illustrated in their figure are almond- to lemon-shaped, a spore shape typical of many Cortinarius species, but certainly not for members of the Orellanus group: Cortinarius orellanoides spores are ovoid to subglobose (see Fig. 1), which is an important character for its identification.
Pediatr Nephrol (2011) 26:487–488 DOI 10.1007/s00467-010-1664-1 Received: 21 July 2010 / Accepted: 30 July 2010 / Published online: 7 October 2010
