Ultrastructural Changes in the Liver of Intravenous Heroin Addicts
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Hepatitis after intravenous buprenorphine misuse in heroin addicts.
BACKGROUND Sublingual buprenorphine is used as a substitution drug in heroin addicts. Although buprenorphine inhibits mitochondrial function at high concentrations in experimental animals, these effects should not occur after therapeutic sublingual doses, which give very low plasma concentrations. CASE REPORTS We report four cases of former heroin addicts infected with hepatitis C virus and p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1840-4812,1512-8601
DOI: 10.17305/bjbms.2010.2730