Turmeric Induced Liver Injury: A Report of Two Cases

Turmeric is a commonly used oral herbal supplement with purported anti-inflammatory and antineoplastic properties. It is promoted as safe, with limited reports of severe adverse effects directly related to oral turmeric thus far in the literature. Herein we report two cases of turmeric supplement in...

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Autores principales: Luber, Raphael P., Rentsch, Clarissa, Lontos, Steve, Pope, Jeffrey D., Aung, Ar Kar, Schneider, Hans G., Kemp, William, Roberts, Stuart K., Majeed, Ammar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6535872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31214366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6741213
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author Luber, Raphael P.
Rentsch, Clarissa
Lontos, Steve
Pope, Jeffrey D.
Aung, Ar Kar
Schneider, Hans G.
Kemp, William
Roberts, Stuart K.
Majeed, Ammar
author_facet Luber, Raphael P.
Rentsch, Clarissa
Lontos, Steve
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Aung, Ar Kar
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description Turmeric is a commonly used oral herbal supplement with purported anti-inflammatory and antineoplastic properties. It is promoted as safe, with limited reports of severe adverse effects directly related to oral turmeric thus far in the literature. Herein we report two cases of turmeric supplement induced severe hepatitis. These cases highlight the need for physicians to be aware of patients taking this common supplement and the potential risks that exist.
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spelling pubmed-65358722019-06-18 Turmeric Induced Liver Injury: A Report of Two Cases Luber, Raphael P. Rentsch, Clarissa Lontos, Steve Pope, Jeffrey D. Aung, Ar Kar Schneider, Hans G. Kemp, William Roberts, Stuart K. Majeed, Ammar Case Reports Hepatol Case Report Turmeric is a commonly used oral herbal supplement with purported anti-inflammatory and antineoplastic properties. It is promoted as safe, with limited reports of severe adverse effects directly related to oral turmeric thus far in the literature. Herein we report two cases of turmeric supplement induced severe hepatitis. These cases highlight the need for physicians to be aware of patients taking this common supplement and the potential risks that exist. Hindawi 2019-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6535872/ /pubmed/31214366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6741213 Text en Copyright © 2019 Raphael P. Luber et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Majeed, Ammar
Turmeric Induced Liver Injury: A Report of Two Cases
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