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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 |}

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Within Vinony's link graph, hepatotoxicity is referenced by 505 other articles, and connects out to Paracetamol, redox and parenchyma.

It sits within the topics Diseases of liver, Hepatology and Toxicology.

Its subject is documented across 22 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Medical condition (new).synonyms
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Medical condition (new).image
Drug-induced hepatitis low mag.jpg
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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35,393 papers

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
toxicity
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health specialty
gastroenterology
NCI Thesaurus ID
C84427
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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  • Drugs withdrawn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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