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Young Woman Dies of TB Treatment-Related Hepatitis

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, August 12th, 1996

Researchers report the death of a nurse assistant due to liver failure caused by treatment for nosocomially acquired multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

The young woman was not infected with HIV and had no known preexisting liver condition before developing chemically acquired hepatitis.

"Liver failure is rare among young persons receiving TB therapy," researcher Andre C. Weltman and colleagues wrote ("A Death Associated with Therapy for Nosocomially Acquired MDR-TB," Chest, July 1996;110(1):279-281). "Liver failure in the nursing assistant described in this report was related temporally to treatment for active MDR-TB disease. Ethionamide (which is...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1996-08-12)

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