Acute and severe liver damage associated with intravenous glucocorticoid pulse therapy in patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy

Thyroid

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 403-406

  Marinól, Michele ^a   Morabito, Eugenia ^a   Brunetto, Maurizia Rossana ^a   Bartalena, Luigi ^b   Pinchera, Aldo ^a   Marocci, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ATENOLOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ESTROGEN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEVOTHYROXINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PROPAFENONE; QUINAPRIL; TRANDOLAPRIL;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROIDECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 2942614927     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/105072504774193276     Document Type: Letter

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