Acute liver failure caused by 'fat burners' and dietary supplements: a case report and literature review.

摘要: Globally, people are struggling with obesity. Many effective, non-conventional methods of weight reduction, such as herbal and natural dietary supplements, increasingly being sought. Fat burners believed to raise metabolism, burn more calories hasten fat loss. Despite patient perceptions that remedies free adverse effects, some supplements associated severe hepatotoxicity. The present report describes a young healthy woman who presented fulminant hepatic failure requiring emergent liver transplantation caused by supplement burner containing usnic acid, green tea guggul tree extracts. Thorough investigation, including histopathological examination, revealed no other cause case adds the increasing number reports hepatotoxicity highlights extracts from or may not be effects. Until these products closely regulated their advertising better scrutinized, physicians patients should become familiar commonly used loss recognize those potentially harmful.