Molecular adsorbents recirculating system (MARS) and the failing liver: A negative editorial for a positive trial?

✍ Scribed by Vicente Arroyo; Javier Fernandez; Antoni Mas; Angels Escorsell

• Book ID: 102240045
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 53 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0270-9139
• DOI: 10.1002/hep.22325

✦ Synopsis

sive medication such as Neoral (ciclosporin) or those taking protease inhibitors used to treat human immunodeficiency virus such as Norvir (ritonavir) may be in particular risk. An effect of naringenin on amphibian embryonic development has also been reported. 2 A partial list of affected drugs is presented in Table 1.

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