Some patients react badly to long-term painkiller use, suffering gastric bleeding and liver problems - and there is no guarantee that the benefits to one group of patients would outweigh the risks to another.

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In a long-term extension trial one-quarter of mipomersen-treated patients had an average liver fat fraction greater than 20%.

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After her most recent reoccurrence in June 2011, Robianne had one-third of her liver removed.

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The EC said it recognised that Scotland had one of the fastest-growing rates of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in the world, but its view was that minimum pricing was a "disproportionate" response.

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Brief exposure to high levels of PCBs and dioxins may cause skin lesions and affect the liver (the tolerated daily intake for dioxin is about 1 picogram - one trillionth of a gram - per kg body weight).

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Hepatitis -- the most common types being hepatitis A, B and C -- refers to inflammation or viral infections of one's liver.

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One 80-year-old patient died after suffering liver problems that may have been caused by Exanta, but the culprit may have been bleeding caused by other drugs.

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Unfortunately, some quack doctors have experimented with chelation therapy on autistic children, despite that fact that it can cause deadly liver and kidney damage, and one of them caused the death of a 5-year-old boy in 2005.

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