A 59-year-old white woman with long-standing psoriasis, who had a damaged liver from methotrexate, developed a toxic hepatitis while on oral methoxsalen photochemotherapy (PUVA). Fever and marked elevation of liver enzymes occurred after the fifteenth PUVA treatment and spontaneously returned to
Methoxsalen, a potent suicide inhibitor of cytochrome P-450 that can be used in humans, might be of value for the prevention of hepatitis in subjects with carbon tetrachloride poisoning. As a preliminary step, we have determined its effects on the hepatotoxicity of carbon tetrachloride in mice.
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