Vitamin A toxicity: When one a day doesn't keep the doctor away

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1888-1891

  Cheruvattath, Rekha ^d   Orrego, Mauricio ^d   Gautam, Manjushree ^d   Byrne, Thomas ^a,d   Alam, Shayan ^b,d   Voltchenok, Marina ^b,d   Edwin, Mark ^b,d   Wilkens, James ^b,d   Williams, James W ^c,d   Vargas, Hugo E ^a,d  

^a Division of Transplantation Medicine   (United States)

^b Hospital Internal Medicine   (United States)

^c Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; RETINOL;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BRAIN DISEASE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FAILURE TO THRIVE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ITO CELL; KIDNEY FAILURE; KUPFFER CELL; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYALGIA; NAIL DYSTROPHY; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PARACENTESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL INTOXICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; HYPERVITAMINOSIS A; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VITAMIN A;

EID: 33845488733     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21007     Document Type: Article

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