[Liver injuries caused by Chinese herbs].

NEPHROPATHY CAUSED BY CHINESE HERBS IN IRAN

Causes, Features, and Outcomes of Drug-Induced Liver Injury in 69 Children from China

BACKGROUND/AIMS Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a frequent cause of pediatric liver disease; however, the data on DILI are remarkably limited. METHODS All 69 children hospitalized with DILI between January 2009 and December 2011 were retrospectively studied. RESULTS A total of 37.7% of the children had medical histories of respiratory infection. The clinical injury patterns were as foll...

Liver toxicity during temozolomide chemotherapy caused by Chinese herbs

BACKGROUND Complementary and alternative medicine is often used by patients with malignant glioma. Although several interactions of various alternative agents with chemotherapy are known, none has been described for temozolomide so far. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of severe liver toxicity with jaundice during radiochemotherapy with temozolomide likely due to interaction with a popula...

Traditional Chinese Medicine and Herb-induced Liver Injury: Comparison with Drug-induced Liver Injury

Cases of suspected herb-induced liver injury (HILI) caused by herbal Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) and of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) are commonly published in the scientific literature worldwide. As opposed to the multiplicity of botanical chemicals in herbal TCM products, which are often mixtures of several herbs, conventional Western drugs contain only a single synthetic chemical...

Pnm-1: Progress of Integrative Chinese andWestern Medicine in Treating Polycystic OvarianSyndrome Caused Infertility

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most popular diseases that cause menstrual dysfunction and infertility in women. The present paper is a brief retrospection on the progress in treatment of PCOS caused infertility with integrative Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM). It can be seen from these materials that using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) recipes formulated by Shen-reple...