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Comment
. 2024 Jun;18(3):1056-1057.
doi: 10.1007/s12072-024-10646-w. Epub 2024 Mar 13.

"Dosis sola facit venenum"-Evidence for causality in the association between ketamine and cholestatic liver injury

Pedro David Wendel-Garcia  1 , Rea Andermatt  1 , Christian Bode  2 , Sascha David  1   3 , Klaus Stahl  4
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"Dosis sola facit venenum"-Evidence for causality in the association between ketamine and cholestatic liver injury

Pedro David Wendel-Garcia et al. Hepatol Int. 2024 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: ARDS; Liver injury; SSC-CIP; Sclerosing cholangitis.

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On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.

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Bradford Hill criteria for causation, and the available evidence linking ketamine as an exposure to cholestatic liver injury as an outcome. These criteria have to be understood as a framework to deduce causality from association. However, the postulation of causality remains a fundamentally interpretative task without clear-cut rules
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