Liver failure and transplantation after itraconazole treatment for toenail onychomycosis.

J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol

Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 64239 Israel.

Published: March 2005

Three weeks after completing a 4-pulse course of itraconazole for toenail onychomycosis, a 25-year-old woman patient developed severe liver crisis and required an emergency liver transplant. We report the case and discuss the use of itraconazole in onychomycosis and dermatomycoses.

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