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ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2025

A case of a lidocaine intoxication of a 12 week old boy due to a circumcision in a domestic setting - clinical, toxicological and forensic aspects.

Noelle Dyballa, Julian Alexander Härtel, Julian Prangenberg, Hilke Andresen-Streichert

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Article in Forensic science, medicine, and pathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Noelle DyballaInstitute of Legal Medicine, Department of Forensic Toxicology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Köln, Germany.
Julian Alexander HärtelDepartment for Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0852-2850
Julian PrangenbergInstitute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7798-4429
Hilke Andresen-StreichertInstitute of Legal Medicine, Department of Forensic Toxicology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Köln, Germany. Hilke.andresen-streichert@uk-koeln.de.ORCID 0000-0002-8779-8902

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Abstract

Lidocaine is a local anaesthetic commonly used during circumcision for dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB). We describe a case of a 12-week-old infant who presented generalized seizures due to local anesthetic systemic toxicity after Lidocaine administration for circumcision in a non-hospital setting. Serum concentrations of Lidocaine (16.4 mg/L) and its main active metabolite monoethylglycinexylidide (MEGX, 1.36 mg/L) were determined by HPLC-DAD, in a sample collected shortly after administration, which were higher than in comparable cases reported in literature. The reason for the overdose was assumed to be accidental systemic application. Due to suspicion of an improperly performed circumcision and bodily harm, police was involved and a clinical forensic examination was carried out. Here, we present analytical, clinical and forensic aspects of this case.

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Anesthetics, LocalCircumcision, MaleLidocaineSeizuresDrug OverdoseForensic ToxicologyHumansInfantMaleAnesthetics, LocalLidocainemonoethylglycinexylidideGXHPLCLignocaineMetabolitePenile nerve blockTopical

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