Concentrated green tea extract induces severe acute hepatitis in a 63-year-old woman - A case report with pharmaceutical analysis

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-170

  Pillukat, Mike H ^a   Bester, Carolin ^a   Hensel, Andreas ^b   Lechtenberg, Matthias ^b   Petereit, Frank ^b   Beckebaum, Susanne ^a   Müller, Klaus Michael ^a   Schmidt, Hartmut H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Albumin dialysis; Camellia sinensis (L.); Green tea

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; PLANT EXTRACT; TEA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEA;

ACUTE DISEASE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CATECHIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEA;

EID: 84905124206     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.05.015     Document Type: Article

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