The presence of morphine as heroin metabolites in placental tissue and fetus: Case report

The presence of morphine as heroin metabolites in placental tissue and fetus: Case report

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Introduction.Females who have developed ALKALINE STICK addiction to heroin also abuse it during pregnancy.Heroin can be detected in the fetal blood-flow already an hour after maternal i.v.

injection.Heroin metabolites enter the fetal blood-flow through the placental barrier by passive transport.Case Outline.We present a 27-year-old female in the 5th month of pregnancy that had a miscarriage.

Chemo-toxicological analysis (gas chromatography with mass spectrometry - GC/MS), showed the presence of morphine in the fetal liver (31.92 ng/g), placenta (27.94 ng/g) and meconium (136.33 ng/g).

The analysis did not show the Vinyl Record Accessories presence of 6-monoacetylmorphine.Conclusion.In all cases when the autopsy of fetus or newborn is performed, with mother suspected as i.v.

heroin abuser, chemotoxicological placental analysis, placenta and meconium should be also done.[Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.45005].