Chronic Oral Amiodarone as a Cause of Acute Liver Failure

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare condition that can have a variable clinical course and potentially fatal outcomes. Medication toxicity is a known etiology, however liver failure induced by amiodarone is rare and has been reported mostly in the setting of intravenous (IV) infusion. We present an...

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Autores principales: Calderon-Martinez, Evelyn, Landazuri-Navas, Samanta, Kaya, Gizem, Cinicola, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36896369
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc4044
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author Calderon-Martinez, Evelyn
Landazuri-Navas, Samanta
Kaya, Gizem
Cinicola, John
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description Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare condition that can have a variable clinical course and potentially fatal outcomes. Medication toxicity is a known etiology, however liver failure induced by amiodarone is rare and has been reported mostly in the setting of intravenous (IV) infusion. We present an 84-year-old patient who developed ALF after chronic use of oral amiodarone. The patient received supportive care and her symptoms improved.
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spelling pubmed-99907052023-03-08 Chronic Oral Amiodarone as a Cause of Acute Liver Failure Calderon-Martinez, Evelyn Landazuri-Navas, Samanta Kaya, Gizem Cinicola, John J Med Cases Case Report Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare condition that can have a variable clinical course and potentially fatal outcomes. Medication toxicity is a known etiology, however liver failure induced by amiodarone is rare and has been reported mostly in the setting of intravenous (IV) infusion. We present an 84-year-old patient who developed ALF after chronic use of oral amiodarone. The patient received supportive care and her symptoms improved. Elmer Press 2023-02 2023-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9990705/ /pubmed/36896369 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc4044 Text en Copyright 2023, Calderon-Martinez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36896369
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc4044
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