Case Reports in Gastroenterology (Nov 2016)

Drug-Induced Liver Injury Associated with Complementary and Alternative Medicines

  • Koji Takahashi,
  • Tatsuo Kanda,
  • Shin Yasui,
  • Yuki Haga,
  • Junichiro Kumagai,
  • Reina Sasaki,
  • Shuang Wu,
  • Shingo Nakamoto,
  • Masato Nakamura,
  • Makoto Arai,
  • Osamu Yokosuka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000452209
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. 706 – 713

Abstract

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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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