title: Drug-Induced Liver Injury Associated with Complementary and Alternative Medicines.
abstract: A 24-year-old man was admitted due to acute hepatitis with unknown etiology. After his condition and laboratory data gradually improved with conservative therapy, he was discharged 1 month later. Two months after his discharge, however, liver dysfunction reappeared. After his mother accidentally revealed that he took complementary and alternative medicine, discontinuation of the therapy caused his condition to improve. Finally, he was diagnosed with a recurrent drug-induced liver injury associated with Japanese complementary and alternative medicine. It is important to take the medical history in detail and consider complementary and alternative medicine as a cause of liver disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanda
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Shin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yasui
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Haga
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Junichiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Reina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan; Department of Molecular Virology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Yokosuka
keywords: Alternative medicine; Complementary medicine; Drug-induced liver injury