Urothelial Carcinoma Associated with the Use of a Chinese Herb (Aristolochia fangchi)
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- 8 June 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 342 (23) , 1686-1692
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200006083422301
Abstract
Chinese-herb nephropathy is a progressive form of renal fibrosis that develops in some patients who take weight-reducing pills containing Chinese herbs. Because of a manufacturing error, one of the herbs in these pills (Stephania tetrandra) was inadvertently replaced by Aristolochia fangchi, which is nephrotoxic and carcinogenic.Keywords
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