4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report

Chlorophenoxy herbicides are a major herbicide used by Sri Lankan farmers. One common variety of chlorophenoxy herbicides is 4-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy acetic acid (MCPA). Reports of clinical toxicity of MCPA in humans are limited. To our knowledge, liver damage is a rare manifestation of MCPA poison...

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Autores principales: Rahmathullah, Izzathunnisa, Sundaresan, KT, GMSS, Kumara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10230180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37266047
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38363
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description Chlorophenoxy herbicides are a major herbicide used by Sri Lankan farmers. One common variety of chlorophenoxy herbicides is 4-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy acetic acid (MCPA). Reports of clinical toxicity of MCPA in humans are limited. To our knowledge, liver damage is a rare manifestation of MCPA poisoning, which has not yet been reported in Sri Lanka. We report a case of a farmer who presented with a heterogeneous pattern of liver damage after being exposed to the MCPA pesticide for six months and who later fully recovered with treatment.
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spelling pubmed-102301802023-06-01 4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report Rahmathullah, Izzathunnisa Sundaresan, KT GMSS, Kumara Cureus Internal Medicine Chlorophenoxy herbicides are a major herbicide used by Sri Lankan farmers. One common variety of chlorophenoxy herbicides is 4-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy acetic acid (MCPA). Reports of clinical toxicity of MCPA in humans are limited. To our knowledge, liver damage is a rare manifestation of MCPA poisoning, which has not yet been reported in Sri Lanka. We report a case of a farmer who presented with a heterogeneous pattern of liver damage after being exposed to the MCPA pesticide for six months and who later fully recovered with treatment. Cureus 2023-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10230180/ /pubmed/37266047 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38363 Text en Copyright © 2023, Rahmathullah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Rahmathullah, Izzathunnisa
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4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report
title 4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report
title_full 4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report
title_fullStr 4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed 4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report
title_short 4-Chloro-2-Methyl-Phenoxy Acetic Acid-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Report
title_sort 4-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy acetic acid-induced liver injury: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10230180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37266047
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38363
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