Cyproheptadine-Induced Acute Liver Failure

We present the case of a 55-year-old white female with no history of liver or gastrointestinal disease, admitted with acute liver failure following a trial of cyproheptadine for appetite stimulation. The patient was managed with supportive care, symptomatic treatment, and discontinuation of cyprohep...

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Autores principales: Chertoff, Jason, Alam, Sabikha, Clark, Virginia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25580444
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2014.56
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description We present the case of a 55-year-old white female with no history of liver or gastrointestinal disease, admitted with acute liver failure following a trial of cyproheptadine for appetite stimulation. The patient was managed with supportive care, symptomatic treatment, and discontinuation of cyproheptadine. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of cyproheptadine-induced acute liver failure in over 20 years.
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spelling pubmed-42868882015-01-08 Cyproheptadine-Induced Acute Liver Failure Chertoff, Jason Alam, Sabikha Clark, Virginia ACG Case Rep J Case Report We present the case of a 55-year-old white female with no history of liver or gastrointestinal disease, admitted with acute liver failure following a trial of cyproheptadine for appetite stimulation. The patient was managed with supportive care, symptomatic treatment, and discontinuation of cyproheptadine. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of cyproheptadine-induced acute liver failure in over 20 years. American College of Gastroenterology 2014-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4286888/ /pubmed/25580444 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2014.56 Text en Copyright © Chertoff et al. This is an open-access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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