The presence of morphine as heroin metabolites in placental tissue and fetus: Case report
Introduction.Females who have 134 developed 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 p