Liver Damage due to Hypervitaminosis

Dietary supplements are unregulated medications that can lead to serious liver injury. Despite this, many people take vitamin supplements believing they are safe because they do not require prescriptions. We are reporting a case of an African American man who took large doses of vitamin supplements...

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Autores principales: Sy, Alexander M., Kumar, Smriti R., Steinberg, Jonathan, Garcia-Buitrago, Monica Tulia, Arosemena Benitez, Leopoldo Ramon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7375485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32766372
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000431
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author Sy, Alexander M.
Kumar, Smriti R.
Steinberg, Jonathan
Garcia-Buitrago, Monica Tulia
Arosemena Benitez, Leopoldo Ramon
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description Dietary supplements are unregulated medications that can lead to serious liver injury. Despite this, many people take vitamin supplements believing they are safe because they do not require prescriptions. We are reporting a case of an African American man who took large doses of vitamin supplements leading to noncirrhotic portal hypertension. The case highlights the importance of detailed history taking to diagnose and treat patients properly.
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spelling pubmed-73754852020-08-05 Liver Damage due to Hypervitaminosis Sy, Alexander M. Kumar, Smriti R. Steinberg, Jonathan Garcia-Buitrago, Monica Tulia Arosemena Benitez, Leopoldo Ramon ACG Case Rep J Case Report Dietary supplements are unregulated medications that can lead to serious liver injury. Despite this, many people take vitamin supplements believing they are safe because they do not require prescriptions. We are reporting a case of an African American man who took large doses of vitamin supplements leading to noncirrhotic portal hypertension. The case highlights the importance of detailed history taking to diagnose and treat patients properly. Wolters Kluwer 2020-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7375485/ /pubmed/32766372 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000431 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work, provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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