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Also known as liver damage, toxic hepatitis, chemical or drug-induced liver injury, Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury

{| class="infobox" style="font-size: 88%; text-align: center; width: 22em; line-height: 1.5em" ! Synonyms |- | Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) Toxin-induced hepatitis Drug-induced hepatitis Drug-induced hepatic necrosis Drug-induced hepatic fibrosis Drug-induced hepatic granuloma Toxic liver disease with hepatitis Toxic liver disease with cholestasisToxic hepatitis Toxic liver diseaseToxin-induced liver diseaseDrug-induced liver diseaseDrug-induced liver damageHepatogenous poisoning |}

Key facts

Medical condition (new).synonyms
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Medical condition (new).caption
Drug-induced hepatitis with granulomata. Other causes were excluded with extensive investigations. Liver biopsy. H&E stain.
Medical condition (new).field
Gastroenterology, Toxicology
Medical condition (new).complications
Cirrhosis, liver failure

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Research

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Encyclopedic overview

26 sections
Contents
  • Causes
  • Paracetamol
  • Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Isoniazid
  • Other hydrazine derivative drugs
  • Natural products
  • Alternative remedies
  • Industrial toxin
  • Mechanism
  • Drug metabolism in liver
  • Patterns of injury
  • Zonal necrosis
  • Hepatitis
  • Cholestasis
  • Steatosis
  • Granuloma
  • Vascular lesions
  • Neoplasm
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Prognosis
  • Drugs withdrawn
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

{| class="infobox" style="font-size: 88%; text-align: center; width: 22em; line-height: 1.5em" ! Synonyms |- | Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) Toxin-induced hepatitis Drug-induced hepatitis Drug-induced hepatic necrosis Drug-induced hepatic fibrosis Drug-induced hepatic granuloma Toxic liver disease with hepatitis Toxic liver disease with cholestasisToxic hepatitis Toxic liver diseaseToxin-induced liver diseaseDrug-induced liver diseaseDrug-induced liver damageHepatogenous poisoning |}

Hepatotoxicity refers to chemical-driven liver damage. Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a cause of acute and chronic liver disease caused specifically by medications and the most common reason for a drug to be withdrawn from the market after approval.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hepatotoxicity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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