Deliberate ingestion of “magic” mushrooms may also cause renal failure

Raff and colleagues describe a case of psilocybin toxicity 2 ; there are other small case reports on intoxication by similar psychoactive mushrooms, most notably cortinarius. 3 The evidence base is poor, but improvement with conservative management is the general trend. [...]this should be a rare but important differential diagnosis in patients with acute renal failure that cannot otherwise be explained by routine imaging and vasculitis screening.