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Desflurane-induced acute liver failure

Marcus W Chin, Dolores B Njoku, Gerard MacQuillan, Wendy S Cheng and Nickolas Kontorinis
MJA 2008; 189 (5): 293-294

To the Editor: It has been well established that traditional inhalational anaesthetic agents can cause mild and sometimes fulminant liver failure.1 However, while newer inhalational agents are a theoretical cause of hepatotoxicity, such cases have rarely been reported.2,3

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