Drug-Induced Liver Injury Associated with Complementary and Alternative Medicines

A 24-year-old man was admitted due to acute hepatitis with unknown etiology. After his condition and laboratory data gradually improved with conservative therapy, he was discharged 1 month later. Two months after his discharge, however, liver dysfunction reappeared. After his mother accidentally rev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Takahashi, Koji, Kanda, Tatsuo, Yasui, Shin, Haga, Yuki, Kumagai, Junichiro, Sasaki, Reina, Wu, Shuang, Nakamoto, Shingo, Nakamura, Masato, Arai, Makoto, Yokosuka, Osamu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2016
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Single Case
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28100990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000452209
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Sumario:A 24-year-old man was admitted due to acute hepatitis with unknown etiology. After his condition and laboratory data gradually improved with conservative therapy, he was discharged 1 month later. Two months after his discharge, however, liver dysfunction reappeared. After his mother accidentally revealed that he took complementary and alternative medicine, discontinuation of the therapy caused his condition to improve. Finally, he was diagnosed with a recurrent drug-induced liver injury associated with Japanese complementary and alternative medicine. It is important to take the medical history in detail and consider complementary and alternative medicine as a cause of liver disease.

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