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History of ingestion, clinical presentation, and exam findings were obtained during phone-based consultation with the patient and intensive care physician. A 46-year-old male presented to a hospital in Lebanon with perioral and extremity numbness as well as dizziness 1 h after ingestion of an L. sceleratus fish. He had caught and prepared the fish himself and had eaten a skinless piece of flesh. Over the following 6 h he also developed ataxia and generalized body numbness. His treatment included systemic hydrocortisone, antihistamine, activated charcoal, and fluids. He was admitted to the intensive care unit, where he developed self-limited, stable sinus bradycardia. He was discharged home on hospital day 5 with residual lightheadedness that improved over several days. This is one of the first reported cases of tetrodotoxin poisoning due to L. sceleratus in Lebanon. Public awareness regarding the toxicity of this species after any ingestion is essential to prevent toxicity and death.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph192214648","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,8]],"date-time":"2022-11-08T10:53:06Z","timestamp":1667904786000},"page":"14648","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Case Report of Tetrodotoxin Poisoning from Lagocephalus sceleratus in Lebanon"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Suad","family":"Al-Sulaimani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA"},{"name":"Georgia Poison Center, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2150-6030","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicholas Vincent","family":"Titelbaum","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA"},{"name":"Georgia Poison Center, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ricardo El","family":"Ward","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Rafic Hariri University Campus, Lebanese University, Hadath 6573, Lebanon"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tharwat El","family":"Zahran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA"},{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sana","family":"Chalhoub","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ziad","family":"Kazzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA"},{"name":"Georgia Poison Center, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Hassoun, A.E.R., Ujevi\u0107, I., Jemaa, S., Roje-Busatto, R., Mahfouz, C., Fakhri, M., and Nazli\u0107, N. 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