Acute liver failure associated with propylthiouracil in a pregnant 26-year-old woman

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 240-244

  Miyamura, Tatsuo ^a   Kanda, Tatsuo ^a   Minemura, Shoko ^a   Nakamura, Masato ^a   Nakamoto, Shingo ^a   Jiang, Xia ^a   Wu, Shuang ^a   Yasui, Shin ^a   Arai, Makoto ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; First trimester; Immune tolerance; Pregnancy; Propylthiouracil

Indexed keywords

GABEXATE MESILATE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; VITAMIN K GROUP; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TOXICITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; FATIGUE; JAUNDICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MILD HEPATIC IMPAIRMENT; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 84884254176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000351877     Document Type: Article

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