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Ischemic hepatitis associated with toxic epidermal necrolysis in a cirrhotic patient treated with cefuroxime
O Yossepowitch1, G Amir, R Safadi
1Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, POB: 12000, Jerusalem, Israel.
European Journal of Medical Research
|April 21, 1997
Abstract:
Ischemic hepatitis is rare in patients with liver cirrhosis and is usually precipitated by hypotension due to gastrointestinal bleeding. We describe a cirrhotic patient who developed ischemic hepatitis as a consequence of toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) caused by cefuroxime.