nephropathy caused by chinese herbs in iran

NEPHROPATHY CAUSED BY CHINESE HERBS IN IRAN

[Liver injuries caused by Chinese herbs].

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...

Treating Infertility by Chinese Herbs

Aristolochic acid: the common culprit of Chinese herbs nephropathy and Balkan endemic nephropathy.

Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a devastating tubulointerstitial kidney disease affecting men and women living in rural areas of Bosnia–Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia [1]. The disease occurs exclusively in farming villages situated in valleys of the Danube River and its tributaries. Since its first description in 1956, the geographic distribution as well as other epidemi...

Analgesic Nephropathy, Balkan Endemic Nephropathy and Chinese Herbs Nephropathy: Separate Tubulointerstitial Kidney Diseases Associated with Urothelial Malignancy

Analgesic nephropathy (AN) was described in 1953 as tubulointerstitial kidney disease associated with chronic abuse of analgetic mixtures. Chinese herbs nephropathy (CHN), another tubulointerstitial kidney disease, on the basis of morphological and clinical grounds, was found similar to Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), and a common etiologic agent, aristolochic acid, was suspected. However, se...