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Liver injury caused by drugs: an update.
Swiss medical weekly - 1 Jan 2010
Stirnimann Guido, Kessebohm Kerstin, Lauterburg Bernhard
Abstract excerpt
Although severe idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a rare event, it has a large impact on the fate of affected patients and the incriminated drug. Hepatic metabolism of drugs, which occurs in the generation of chemically reactive metabolites in critical amounts, seems to underlie most instances of DILI. Genetic polymorphisms in activating and detoxifying enzymes determine, in part, the extent of...
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