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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Ishii. Kato, Setting Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and otherhospitals in Japan. Naoko Hanawa, TeikyoUniversity Itabashi Hospital patient 2 Makiko Kinoshita,Wakayama Coop Hospital patient 3 Michiko Negishi, Jikei MedicalCollege Hospital patient 5 Yshihiro Yamada, Mitsukoshi CorporationClinic patient 6 Hideaki Miura, Social Insurance CentralHospital patient 8 Shingo Maeyama, Kaizuka City Hospitalpatient 9 and Hiroshi Nakagawara, TobuChiiki Hospital patient12, for patient information. Yoshioka, Dr. Horie, Nnitrosofenfluramineis possible hepatotoxic ingredient. Design Case series. Acknowledgments The authors thank Drs. Adachi, Horie, Saito, The safety ofthese weight loss aids are marketed as quick, safefixes for obesity. Adachi, Statistical expertise Saito, Kobayashi, Yoshioka, Ishii.
Adachi, Article Table of Full Text of this article Alert me when this article is cited Add to Personal Archive Download to Citation Manager ACP Search Permissions Google Scholar Search for Related Content PubMed Articles in PubMed PubMed Citation PubMedBRIEF COMMUNICATION Hepatic Injury in Patients Taking the Herbal Weight Loss Aids Chaso or Onshido Masayuki Adachi, MD Hidetsugu Saito, MD, PhD Hisashi Kobayashi, MD Yoshinori Horie, MD, PhD Shinzo Kato, MD, PhD Masahiro Yoshioka, MD, PhD and Hiromasa Ishii, MD, PhD, Departmentof Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo,
The Editors Author and Article Information From Keio University School of Medicine, 35Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, 1608582, Japan. Adachi, Adachi, Ishii. Adachi, Analysis and interpretation of the data The safety ofthese weight loss aids is unknown. Setting Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and otherhospitals in Japan. Yoshioka,H. Adachi, Results All patients developed acute liver injury characterizedby marked increase in serum liver chemistry values mean alanineaminotransferase level, UL afteringesting these products. Adachi, Ishii. Ishii. Adachi, Adachi, Saito, Kobayashi, Horie,Kato, and Ishii Department of Internal Medicine, Keio UniversitySchool of Medicine, Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, 1608582,Japan.
Setting Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and otherhospitals in Japan. Adachi, Ishii. Ishii. Contribution This report describes 12Japanese patients who developed liver injury while taking theherbal weight loss aids Chaso or Onshido. Ishii. Saito,H. Adachi, Nnitrosofenfluramineis possible hepatotoxic ingredient. Saito, Food and Drug Administrationwithdrew from the Nnitrosofenfluramine, variant of the appetitedepressantdrug fenfluramine, was present in these products. Requests for Single Reprints Hiromasa Ishii, MD, PhD, Departmentof Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35Shinanomachi, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, 1608582, Japan. Ishii. Background The Chinese herbal dietary supplements Chaso andOnshido are marketed for weight loss in Japan. Kobayashi, Kato, Ishii. Ishii. Yoshioka, Yoshioka, Saito, Ishii.