Abstract
A 56-year-old female patient on verapamil for hypertension experienced two episodes of jaundice, pruritus and upper abdominal pain with transaminase elevated up to six-fold and alkaline phosphatase up to four-fold when inadvertently re-challenged with the drug. Liver biopsy showed marked cholestasis. Verapamil can occasionally cause mixed cytotoxic-cholestatic liver injury.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 169-170 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Hepato-Gastroenterology |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - Jan 1 1988 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hepatology
- Gastroenterology