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ReviewLiver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver2018

Acute liver failure induced by idiosyncratic reaction to drugs: Challenges in diagnosis and therapy.

Shannan R Tujios, William M Lee

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Review in Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
51citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. [Chinese guideline for diagnosis and management of drug-induced liver injury (2023 version)].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2023
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  3. Multicenter Evaluation of Large Language Models Versus Hepatologists for Prognostic Prediction in Drug-Induced Liver Injury.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  8. Natural History of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury and Prognostic Models.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2025
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  19. Critical care management of acute liver failure.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shannan R TujiosDivision of Digestive and Liver Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
William M LeeDivision of Digestive and Liver Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2783-5441
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

A Multi-Center Study of Acute Liver Failure in AdultsU01DK058369 · NIDDK · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI DURKALSKI, VALERIE L, FONTANA, ROBERT J · 2005 to 2019
$27.4M
A MULTI-CENTER THERAPY TRIAL FOR ACUTE LIVER FAILURER01DK058369 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SW MED CTR/DALLAS · PI LEE, WILLIAM M · 2000 to 2004
$4.2M
UT Southwestern: Clinical Site for the Drug-Induced Liver Injury NetworkU01DK083023 · NIDDK · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEE, WILLIAM M · 2008 to 2012
$1.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK058369NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK058369NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK083023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute liver failure (ALF) requires urgent attention to identify etiology and determine prognosis, in order to assess likelihood of survival or need for transplantation. Identifying idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (iDILI) may be particularly difficult, but the illness generally follows a subacute course, allowing time to assess outcome and find a liver graft if needed. Not all drugs that cause iDILI lead to ALF; the most common are antibiotics including anti-tuberculous medications, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents and herbal and dietary supplements (HDS). Determining causality remains challenging particularly if altered mentation is present; identifying the causative agent depends in part on knowing the propensity of the drugs that have been taken in the proper time interval, plus excluding other causes. In general, iDILI that reaches the threshold of ALF will more often than not require transplantation, since survival without transplant is around 25%. Treatment consists of withdrawal of the presumed offending medication, consideration of N-acetylcysteine (NAC), as well as intensive care. Corticosteroids have not proven useful except perhaps in instances of apparent autoimmune hepatitis caused by a limited number of agents. Recently developed prognostic scoring systems may also aid in predicting outcome in this setting.

Indexed as

Chemical and Drug Induced Liver InjuryHumansLiver Failure, AcutePredictive Value of TestsPrognosisRisk FactorsSeverity of Illness Indexacute liver failuredrug-induced liver injuryhepatotoxicityidiosyncratic

Identifiers

PMID28771932
PMCPMC5741491
OpenAlexW2744804382

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