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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
Clopidogrel, Turkey and a red herring?
  1. SP Leighton1,
  2. C Gordon2,
  3. A Shand3
  1. 1College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  2. 2Department of Acute Medicine, NHS Lothian, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
  3. 3Department of Gastroenterology, NHS Lothian, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to Samuel Paul Leighton, samleighton87{at}gmail.com

Summary

The authors present the case of acute hepatitis E in a 61-year-old Edinburgh man who had returned from a holiday in Turkey 6 weeks previously. Diagnosis was ambiguous with his presentation initially attributed to a drug-induced liver injury.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.01.2011.3776

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