A healthy 35-year-old woman who took a weight-loss supplement developed liver failure, and needed a liver transplant, according to a new report of her case.
The woman took three Saba Appetite Control and Energy (ACE) pills within two days, and two weeks later she developed jaundice, according to the report from researchers at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, who treated the woman.
Her condition worsened, and a week later she developed leg swelling and an accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity (known as ascites). Eight weeks after her jaundice set in, the woman experienced liver failure and needed a transplant.