Chlorpromazine hepatotoxicity manifested by a selective and sustained rise of serum alkaline phosphatase activity

Digestive Diseases and Sciences - Tập 10 - Trang 727-731 - 1965
Richard I. Breuer1
1From the Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham

Tóm tắt

A patient with liver injury, probably due to chlorpromazine toxicity, is presented. Unusual features of this patient's illness included an extremely high and persistent elevation of alkaline phosphatase level without hyperbilirubinemia and lack of centrilobular bile stasis on liver biopsy.

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