A patient was prescribed a new treatment, 40 mg furosemide. Her pharmacist mistakenly dispensed 40 mg gliclazide instead. After 3 weeks of treatment, the patient was found in a coma, was hospitalised and died after a week. Hair sample was collected during post-mortem examination and tested for gliclazide on three 2 cm sections, starting at the root end. Hair strands were decontaminated, segmented and incubated in the presence of diazepam-d
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