Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (Jan 2020)

A complicated chinese herbal medicine nephrotoxicity

  • Haider Ali Omer Mohamed,
  • Osama Mirghani Osman,
  • Husaam Haider Ali,
  • Mohammed Nasser Asiri,
  • Abdulrhman Ali Hassan,
  • Ibrahim Mohammed Almangah,
  • Abbas Omer Elkarib,
  • Ali AbBshabshe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1319-2442.284032
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 2
pp. 533 – 536

Abstract

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Chinese herbal medicine is widely used globally. In many instances, it is associated with severe adverse outcomes. We report case of a Chinese herbal nephropathy occurring in a 43-year-old woman showing renal impairment, metabolic acidosis, Stokes - Adams syndrome, hypernatremia, and hypokalemia, characteristics not usually encountered in published cases.