Intoxicación por Brugmansia arborea (Solanaceae) en un canino

Abstract

Among the etiologies of poisoning in companion animals, plants represent 10-15% of the agents reported. Brugmansia arborea sin. Datura arborea (floripondio, angel's trumpet) is a shrub or small tree, perennial, with white, conical and pendulous flowers, distributed worldwide as an ornamental plant in gardens. Brugmansia genus present high content of tropane alkaloids such as scopolamine, hyoscyamine and atropine, which antagonize acetylcholine at cholinergic muscarinic receptors. Documented cases of human poisoning with this plant are numerous and are characterized by an anticholinergic syndrome, flaccid paralysis, seizures and death. In this report the first case of Brugmansia arborea poisoning in a two-month old dog is reported. The clinical signs observed and their correlations with those reported in human cases are presented.