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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- Marcus W Chin1
- Dolores B Njoku2
- Gerard MacQuillan3
- Wendy S Cheng1
- Nickolas Kontorinis1
- 1 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA.
- 2 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA.
- 3 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA.
Correspondence: marcus.chin@health.wa.gov.au
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