Short-term treatment with taurolidine is associated with liver injury

• Main Authors: René Fahrner (Author), Anika Möller (Author), Adrian T. Press (Author), Andreas Kortgen (Author), Michael Kiehntopf (Author), Falk Rauchfuss (Author), Utz Settmacher (Author), Alexander S. Mosig (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Taurolidine has been used for peritonitis, oncological and catheter-lock treatment because of its anti-inflammatory properties. It has been suggested that taurolidine has no severe side-effects, but after long-term use morphological and functional changes of the liver were report...