Posted: 30 October 2009 at 8:05am | IP Logged

he rbal¡ªextracts to lose weight is an underestimated health hazard£®Often£¬these products include energetic agents that can cause acute liver damage£®In this case report£¬a 22-year-old femaIe patient£¬who presented with a characteristic of cholestatic syndrome£¬was so sure that the natural products were not dangerous that she did not infOrm her physicians that she had taken them£®making their task that much more challenging£®ClinicaI presentation mimicked acute cholecystitis and the Patient underwent a cholecystectomy£®Surgery was without
any consequences and complications£¬although it did not cornpletely cure the ´¨ness£®She later admit-ted
to having taken herbaI remedies and this led to the correct diagnosis of phytotherapy-related hepatotoxicity
and a successfuI therapeutic approach£®The correct incidence of phytotherapy-related hepatotoxicity and
its pathogenic mechanisms are largely unknown£®It is important to increase the awareness of both clinicians
and patients about the potential dangers of herbaI remedies£®

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