Traditional Chinese Medicine and herbal hepatotoxicity: A tabular compilation of reported cases

Annals of Hepatology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-19

  Teschke, Rolf ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   Long, Hongzhu ^c   Schwarzenboeck, Alexander ^a   Schmidt Taenzer, Wolfgang ^a   Genthner, Alexander ^a   Wolff, Albrecht ^d   Frenzel, Christian ^e   Schulze, Johannes ^a   Eickhoff, Axel ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Shandong Institute for Food and Drug Control   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causality assessment; Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences; Herb induced liver injury; Herbs; Re exposure

Indexed keywords

BAI XIAN PI; BO HE; CHINESE DRUG; CHUAN LIAN ZI; DA HUANG; ELEUTHEROCOCCUS EXTRACT; EPHEDRA SINICA EXTRACT; FALLOPIA MULTIFLORA EXTRACT; GE GEN; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HUANG GEUN CHO; HUANG QIN; JI GU CAO; JI XUE CAO; JIGUJA; JIN BU HUAN; JUE MING ZI; LING YANG QING FEI KELI; LU CHA; PUERARIA EXTRACT; RHEN SHEN; SHAN CHI; SHEN MIN; SHOU WU PIAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIAO CHAI HU TANG; YIN CHEN HAO; ZEXIE; ZHEN CHU CAO;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SCALE; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG MIXTURE; DRUG REEXPOSURE; DRUG SAFETY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PUBLICATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOXIC HEPATITIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; PHYTOTHERAPY;

DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY;

EID: 84918779261     PISSN: 16652681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1665-2681(19)30796-3     Document Type: Article

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