Abstract
2/2025
vol. 11
Review paper
Drug-induced liver injury. Part II: Late complications and hepatotoxicity monitoring
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
- Department of Liver Diseases, Provincial Infectious Disease Hospital of T. Browicz, Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Department of Infectious Disease, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
Clin Exp HEPATOL 2025; 11, 2: 89-96
Online publish date: 2025/06/09
The picture of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is polymorphic, with variable intensity of clinical symptoms and prognosis. Most cases of DILI are acute, although the incidence of chronic hepatopathy has been reported to range from 3.4% to 39.0% in the period 6-12 months after discontinuation of the drug. The long-term chronic consequences of DILI in terms of morbidity and mortality are unclear. The rare obstructive bile duct syndrome is associated with an unfavorable prognosis – a higher risk of chronic liver failure and the need for liver transplantation. Other long-term forms of hepatopathy following DILI include progressive liver fibrosis, autoimmune hepatitis, hepatic steatosis, secondary sclerosing cholangitis, vascular lesions, and liver tumors. Recently, immune checkpoint inhibitors, which can cause an autoimmune-like phenotype, have also been shown to cause sclerosing cholangitis with infiltration of cytotoxic T cells in the biliary tract.
Keywords
hepatotoxicity, sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis, vanishing bile duct syndrome, secondary sclerosing cholangitis
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