Clinical and Medical Case Reports

Hepatotoxicity due to the Consumption of a Plant Growing In Eastern Anatolia: A Case Report

Abstract

Bilger Çavuş, Mehmet Alagöz, Zekeriya Aksöz and Hikmet Cengiz

In this case report, we present patients who presented to emergency department with gastrointestinal symptoms developing after consumption of a plant known by local people for its medicinal properties, and had prolonged coagulation test parameters and elevated liver transaminase levels 15-20 times of the reference limit. The consumed plant was examined, and identified as ferulacomunis. The patients who developed toxic hepatitis showed spontaneous clinical resolution within a 6-7 days period.