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Age
The capacity to metabolize medications may be impaired with age, and hence,
may predispose individuals to DILI.However, in an observational study of 899
patients considered to have DILI, the age of at least 65years was not associated
with increased mortality or liver transplantation [30]. A similar distribution in
gender and age was documented in a study from Spain that included 603 cases of
DILI, with a peak distribution in the 40 to 49 and 60 to 69 age groups, with no
reported cases in the 20 to 29 years aged group. Patients at least 60 years old
accounted for 46% of cases, with a signicant majority being men; however, ful-
minant liver failure and liver transplantation were more common in women than
in men. The proportion of cholestatic liver injury increased with age [31], a nd-
ing similar to the study from the United States [30]. In contrast, a prospective
study from Iceland that included 96 patients with DILI, excluding acetaminophen
induced toxicity, documented the highest incidence in the group 80 to 106years of
age, i.e. 41 per 100,000 inhabitants. The mean prescription rate increased with
age, and it was the highest for this group [32]. These ndings have suggested that
an increase in the number of medications in the elderly may be implicated in DILI
risk [32, 33].
Isoniazid hepatotoxicity from a sample of 3377 patients was studied from a data-
base of patients treated from 1996 to 2003in a public health department clinic in the
United States. Classied per 1000 individuals and according to age group, 4.40
events were reported in the 25 to 34years group, 8.54 in the 35 to 49 years, and
20.83 for those at least 50years old [34]. In contrast, the use of valproic acid as part
of antiseizure therapy was associated with a marked increase, 1:600, in fatal hepa-
totoxicity in patients younger than 2 years of age [35]. Other risk factors included
developmental delay and metabolic disorders [35].
In regards to isoniazid, a predominance of cholestatic liver injury occurs in the
elderly, which differs from the typical hepatocellular injury associated with this
drug, which happens more frequently in people over the age of 35, and that dramati-
cally increases after age 50 [34].
Gender
The studies from Spain, Iceland, and the United States did not support an increase
in the incidence of DILI in women versus men [30–32]; however, it is noted that
women tend to be more susceptible than men to DILI of the autoimmune type,
which may be a reection of the increased risk of some autoimmune liver diseases
in this gender, including autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis
[36, 37].
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Race andEthnicity
The daily use of four grams of acetaminophen in a controlled study documented that
Hispanic American subjects had a 1.9 relative risk (RR) (95% condence interval
(CI), 1.1–3.33) versus non-Hispanic subjects of exhibiting an increase in serum
activity of ALT.There was no difference in the peak and trough or area under the
drug curve levels between the subjects who exhibited versus those who did not
exhibit an increase in serum ALT activity. The ndings suggested that drug metabo-
lism alone may not have been related to ALT activity increases, and perhaps, the
ethnicity determined the increase in ALT activity. Racial characteristics of the
Hispanic subjects were not reported; thus, it is unclear whether the ALT phenome-
non was related to ethnicity, race, or both [38].
Idiosyncratic DILI was reported in association with increased morbidity and
mortality in a study that included 144 African American versus 841 non-Hispanic
white patients. Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, methyldopa, and phenytoin were
more injurious in African American than in non-Hispanic white subjects. The sever-
ity of DILI was worse in African American patients, who had more skin reactions,
were hospitalized more often, underwent more liver transplantations, and had more
liver related deaths 6 months post DILI than the non-Hispanic white subjects [39].
A meta-analysis of pharmacogenetic studies of drug-metabolizing enzyme poly-
morphisms that included 2225 patients and 4906 control subjects revealed an asso-
ciation between drug-induced liver injury from anti-tuberculosis drugs and
CYP2E1*1A in East Asians when the data were stratied by ethnicity [40].
Alcohol
The effect of alcohol on toxicity has been documented for substances that include
acetaminophen, cocaine, halothane, and isoniazid, on which it has a marked
enhancement, with a moderate enhancement for others, including vitamin A and
methotrexate [41].
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is included as a variable in causality assessment scales; however, there is
no evidence that pregnancy per se increases the risk of DILI; however, some drugs
used in pregnancy, including methyldopa, hydralazine, and propylthiouracil used to
treat specic comorbidities can cause DILI; thus the clinician must be aware of their
association with liver injury.
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Comorbidities
Risk factors for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease may be associated with steatosis
and steatohepatitis from medications. In this regard, tamoxifen was associated with
an increased risk for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in patients with high serum tri-
glyceride and fasting blood sugar concentrations, and low high density lipoprotein.
Tamoxifen related injury was not associated with hypertension, obesity, and over-
weight state in a study from Iran [42]. These results contrast with those from a
prospective randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial from Italy in which
tamoxifen was associated with an increased risk to develop nonalcoholic steato-
hepatitis only in overweight and obese women with characteristics of the metabolic
syndrome [43].
Methotrexate is another drug that has received much attention regarding its ther-
apeutic benets and its risk for hepatotoxicity. In this regard, a record review from
patients listed from 1987 to 2011 for liver transplantation with the Organ Procurement
and Transplantation Network because of liver disease from methotrexate was con-
ducted [44]. The study reported a low (0.07%) proportion of adult patients listed or
transplanted for methotrexate induced liver disease, with Caucasian, middle-aged
women with diabetes being signicantly present in the group. These characteristics
did not differ from the group listed for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis except for the
race [44]. The results also indicated that a common pathway might underlie the
pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and methotrexate induced liver injury
when it happens. However, the results cannot be interpreted to suggest that metho-
trexate increases the risk of toxicity in patients at risk for nonalcoholic steatohepa-
titis [44]. Although a slight deviation from the discussion of comorbidities as risk
factors for DILI, it is worth noting that the authors cite a request for additional data
regarding methotrexate induced hepatotoxicity [44], which might have been exag-
gerated for a drug that has important benecial effects [45]. The authors add that
their work fullls that request and conclude that methotrexate induced hepatotoxic-
ity is rare [44]. However, the EASLD (European Association for the Study of Liver
Diseases) Clinical Practice Guidelines: Drug-induced liver injury state “compo-
nents of the metabolic syndrome should be considered risk factors for the occur-
rence and the degree of DAFL [drug-induced fatty liver disease] in patients treated
with tamoxifen and methotrexate” [33].
Chronic Liver Disease
Baseline increased activity of aminotransferases and coinfection with the hepatitis
C virus were identied as risk factors for DILI in association with antiretroviral
drugs, from a retrospective review of data from 8851 patients enrolled in 16 Adult
AIDS Clinical Trial Group studies from 1989 to 1999 [46].
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In a study that included 371 patients with HIV infection, 24.5% of the patients
diagnosed with tuberculosis had underlying liver disease, comprised of acute and
chronic viral hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis, “other hepatitis,” and chronic liver dis-
ease, which was diagnosed at baseline or during anti-tuberculosis treatment.
Increased serum AST and ALT activities occurred in 31.2% of the episodes of posi-
tive tuberculosis diagnosis during the rst month of treatment, with the most com-
mon increases being twice the upper limits of normal (ULN) in half of the patients.
However, ve and ten times the ULN values were also documented. This study’s
relevance is that patients with HIV and tuberculosis may also have chronic liver
disease, suggesting that liver prole monitoring during treatment is important [47].
Hepatitis C was also identied as a risk factor for DILI in association with anti-
tuberculosis drugs, as documented from a retrospective study of 128 patients.
Coinfection with hepatitis B and C was also identied as a risk factor for DILI as
were increased age and baseline abnormality of the liver panel [48].
From a prospective study that examined the outcomes of 899 patients with DILI,
it was reported that the severity of the liver injury was greater in patients with liver
disease and that DILI was associated with a signicant increase in mortality of
10.8% over those without preexisting liver disease. The most common drug associ-
ated with DILI in patients with preexisting liver disease was azithromycin [30].
Drug Dependent Risk Factors
Medication dose contributes to liver injury, with greater than 50mg per dose associ-
ated with an increased risk for DILI.For example, acetaminophen at a single dose
greater than 7.5g is related to acute liver toxicity. However, idiosyncratic DILI is
characterized by a lack of clear dose dependency [49]; nevertheless, it is now con-
sidered that idiosyncratic DILI may also be related to dosage.
Among prescription medicines from pharmacy databases in the United States, a
statistically signicant relationship was observed between daily doses of oral medi-
cations and liver failure reports, liver transplantation, and death from DILI [50].
Recorded by the Swedish Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee, 9% of all
DILI cases were in the category of less than 10mg per day, 14.2% in the 11–49mg
per day, and 77% in the at least 50mg per day group, with an associated death or
liver transplantation in 2%, 9.4%, and 13.2%, respective to the categories [50].
Drug Metabolism
Drug metabolism can generate metabolites that react with intracellular substances
that alter cellular function and provoke injury [51]. Some of the drugs documented
to cause reactive metabolites include acetaminophen, tamoxifen, isoniazid, and car-
bamazepine [52].
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Hepatic metabolism greater than 50% was dened as high for a study that
explored the relationship between metabolism and DILI [53]. It was reported that
drugs with high hepatic metabolism were associated with a signicant increased
frequency of high ALT activity, liver failure, and DILI associated with death [53].
Lipophilicity
Lipophilicity is a chemical compound’s ability to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids, and
non-polar solvents. Highly lipophilic drugs have an increased ability to cause toxic-
ity. The combination of lipophilicity and daily dose, known as the rule-of-two, is
considered an indication of a drug’s hepatotoxic potential [54]. In this regard, high
lipophilicity may facilitate an increase in the drug uptake by the hepatocyte [54].
The Ro2 analysis is a model that may identify the hepatotoxicity potential of drugs
in the development process [55, 56].
Drug Interactions
It is not infrequent for patients with DILI to be taking multiple medications. The
exercise of reviewing each medication’s start date and the rst day of documented
abnormalities, clinical or laboratory, is fundamental, and it may take more than the
20 to 30minutes allowed to see patients in many clinics. The identication of DILI
culprits has been greatly facilitated by the creation of the LiverToxNIH.gov website
[2]. The readers of this book must learn that unless a vigorous medication reconcili-
ation, which may involve reviewing the medication bottles, calls to the pharmacy,
and communication with other members of the health care team is done, the drug
involved will not be identied, and the opportunity to discontinue it will be missed.
The mechanism of hepatotoxicity in drug interactions may be related to the abil-
ity of some agents to induce the cytochrome p450 family of enzymes, such as rifam-
picin, which, when coadministered with isoniazid, increases the odds of DILI [57],
and carbamazepine and phenytoin, with valproic acid [58].
Mitochondrial Toxicity
Drugs that decrease mitochondrial number and function are associated with fatty
liver, including liver failure. The mechanism of this type of liver injury may result
from increased production of reactive oxygen species, impaired mitochondrial per-
meability transition, altered mitochondrial respiration, mitochondrial DNA dam-
age, or inhibition of beta-oxidation of fatty acids [59].
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This category of hepatotoxic drugs includes aluridine, a nucleoside analogue
[60], thiazolidinediones, brates, cholesterol lowering drugs, antidepressants of the
serotonin reuptake inhibitors type, serotonin antagonists used for nausea treatment,
pain medications (NSAIDs), some antibiotics including uoroquinolones and mac-
rolides, kinase inhibitors and anthracyclins, anticancer drugs [61], and most of the
reverse transcriptase inhibitors used in the treatment of HIV, which act by the inhi-
bition of human DNA polymerase gamma [62].
Inhibition ofHepatobiliary Transporters
Hepatobiliary transporters regulate the uptake of substances into the hepatocyte and
the export of endobiotic and xenobiotics to prevent their intracellular accumulation,
which can be toxic. The bile salt export protein (BSEP) is located on the hepato-
cyte’s canalicular domain and removes monovalent, conjugated bile salts from those
cells. An association between the pharmacological interference with BSEP function
and DILI has been hypothesized [63].
The role of BSEP in DILI has been described for several drugs, including gli-
tazones [64], some antiretrovirals agents [65], and endothelin antagonists [66]. In
vitro models that test the function of BSEP have been suggested for inclusion in the
development of drugs to identify potential toxic agents prior to the human testing
phase [63].
Epidemiology
Four hundred and sixty-one DILI cases were conrmed from 1994 to 2004 in
Spain’s cooperative network [67]. Antimicrobials were the most common type of
drugs, with amoxicillin-clavulanate comprising 12.8% of the cases [67].
A prospective study conducted in Iceland from 2010 to 2011 included 96 sub-
jects with DILI.The crude annual incidence was reported as 19.1 (95% condence
interval [CI], 15.4–23.3) cases per 100,000 inhabitants, 56% being women, with a
median age of 55years. Seventy-ve percent was caused by prescription medica-
tions and 16% by dietary supplements. Again, the most common drug involved in
DILI was amoxicillin-clavulanate, in 22% of the cases, with diclofenac in 6%, and
azathioprine, iniximab, and nitrofurantoin in 4% [32].
The Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network from the United States provided a sub-
group analysis of its prospectively collected data on DILI beginning in 2004 with
patients followed for 6 months. From 1257, causality was assessed in 1091, with
899 being conrmed as denite, highly likely, or probable DILI.Azithromycin was
signicantly more common in patients with liver disease, 6.7%, versus those with-
out liver disease, 1.5% [30].
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It is essential to identify vitamins, minerals, dietary elements, food components,
natural herbs, herbal preparations, and synthetic compounds taken to supplement
the diet as possible culprits in the approach to a patient with liver injury. A report
including these substances documented the DILI cases proportion from 7% in 2004
to 2005 to 20% in 2013–2014, with bodybuilding supplements as a cause of liver
injury from 2% to 6% over the same period [68].
Approach toaPatient withSuspected Drug-Induced
Liver Injury
DILI is part of the differential diagnosis of a patient with an abnormal liver prole.
It is a diagnosis of exclusion; thus, other causes of liver disease must be excluded
before attributing liver disease to a drug, without the workup being an impediment
to a rapid diagnosis [2].
A detailed medication history including those prescribed, over the counter and
herbal supplements, and illicit drugs and alcohol is very important. In addition,
serology for acute or chronic viral hepatitis A, B, C, and E [69], autoimmune mark-
ers, and serum concentration of immunoglobulins, ceruloplasmin, and alpha 1 anti-
trypsin, and iron studies comprise the laboratory investigation in a patient with liver
disease, including DILI [70]. Ischemic hepatitis is a complication not infrequently
identied in hospitalized patients [71]. In addition, hepatic manifestation of extra-
hepatic diseases has to be considered in the differential diagnosis [72, 73].
The information required from the history in the approach to a patient with liver
disease from DILI is: (1) time to onset or latency, i.e., challenge, which is the time
from the rst dose of the agent to the onset of liver injury, (2) time to recovery, i.e.,
dechallenge, (3) injury pattern and clinical phenotype, (4) exclusion of other causes
of liver disease, (5) known information about a drug being the cause of liver injury,
i.e., likelihood, and (6) response to reexposure, accidental or intentional, i.e., rechal-
lenge, which is not done intentionally.
The time to onset can be established from the time the drug was prescribed to the
time the rst symptom or sign of liver injury is experienced or exhibited, e.g.,
fatigue, jaundice, or choluria, because the time to the rst abnormal liver test cannot
be identied unless the patient is being monitored with blood work [2, 74, 75].
The time to recovery is when the medication is stopped to the time the liver
injury is resolved. In general, the resolution starts on discontinuation of the drug
with notable decreases in liver associated enzyme activity within a week of discon-
tinuing the agent; however, prolonged DILI can occur, which requires continuity of
care to document resolution [2, 74, 75].
The pattern of liver injury, i.e., the pattern of the liver prole, or the clinical phe-
notype, may be typical and consistent with what has been reported in the literature,
hence the importance of search databases, e.g., LiverToxNIH.gov and communica-
tion with pharmacists [2, 74, 75].
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The exercise through which efforts are made to identify the DILI agent is called
causality assessment. The instruments used in the causality assessment process for
hepatotoxicity are the Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method (RUCAM) [76]
and its modication, Maria and Victorino (M & V) system [77]. Expert opinion is
the best method to arrive at a diagnosis of DILI [78]; however, as it requires the
participation of several clinicians, it may not be practical in some settings if an
immediate opinion is necessary, but it is undoubtedly worthwhile to seek it as soon
as possible.
In the context of clinical trials, and clinical work, possible hepatotoxicity by
laboratory criteria is dened as [79]:
1. minimally abnormal serum test results, which signify a warning:
(a) AST or ALT above the ULN and up to three times the ULN, o r.
(b) alkaline phosphatase up to 1.5 the ULN, or,
(c) bilirubin up to two times the ULN, which “signify a warning” and,
2. markedly abnormal serum test results, which are an indication for immediate
action, i.e., discontinuation of the drug and clinical follow up:
(a) AST or ALT more than three times the ULN, o r.
(b) alkaline phosphatase more than 1.5 the ULN, or,
(c) bilirubin more than two times the ULN.
Causes of liver disease must be excluded as the drug is discontinued, as
already stated.
Mortality can be high when DILI is associated with hepatocellular injury and
jaundice [1]. The early identication of the high potential for a bad outcome with
this type of DILI phenotype is fundamental in clinical trials and clinical medicine.
This observation is known as Hy’s rule, after the master of hepatotoxicity, Dr.
Hyman J. Zimmerman, who recorded it [1, 80]. Severe hepatocellular injury,
reected by increased activity of serum transaminases, can overwhelm the liver’s
capacity to function, e.g., to handle bilirubin, which is reected by hyperbilirubine-
mia and is associated with a ten to 50 percent mortality from ALF from DILI [1].
The Food and Drug Administration has incorporated Hy’s rule in their drug approval
process, and it modied the term Hy’s rule to Hy’s Law [80, 81].
Hy’s Law has been reexamined. The R value is a number that predicts the devel-
opment of ALF from DILI [80, 81]. The development of the new R value, i.e., nR,
has been published. Data recorded between 1994 and 2012 from 777 subjects with
805 episodes of DILI were examined regarding the peak in serum ALT activity and
bilirubin concentration. Thirty-two of the 771 patients developed ALF.The inde-
pendent high risk factors to develop ALF were female gender, high serum bilirubin
concentration, and serum AST to ALT activities ratio (AST: ALT). Comparative
analyses with total bilirubin greater than two times the ULN, and either serum ALT
activity greater than three times the ULN, an R value of ALT times the ULN divided
by SA of alkaline phosphatase times the ULN of at least ve were included as vari-
ables versus an nR, which was calculated by the inclusion of whichever transami-
nase activity was the highest, ALT or AST, divided by SA of alkaline phosphatase
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times the ULN of at least ve. At diagnosis, the R and the nR identied patients who
developed ALF, with 67% and 63% specicity. The serum ALT activity and the nR
model provided a 90% specicity for the development of ALF versus the R model,
the sensitivity of which was 83%. The height of the serum alkaline phosphatase
activity was similar between the group of patients who developed and those who did
not develop ALF.An algorithm comprised of SA of AST greater than 17.3 times the
upper limit of normal, a serum total bilirubin concentration of 6.6 times the ULN,
and an AST: ALT activity ratio greater than 1.5 identied patients who developed
ALF with a specicity and sensitivity of 82% and 80%, respectively. The use of this
relatively new paradigm further facilitates the identication of patients who are at
risk for ALF.It alerts the clinician to provide support measures to patients and vigi-
lant follow up for timely evaluation for liver transplantation [82].
A study that included 250 patients with suspected DILI evaluated the causality
assessment by the use of a structured expert opinion process versus the Roussel
Uclaf causality assessment method. Detailed clinical and laboratory data from
patients with suspected DILI were distributed to expert committee members who
reviewed, adjudicated, and completed a RUCAM scale. For 187 cases associated
with a single agent, there was an initial complete agreement for 50 cases (27%)
within the expert opinion process, and for 34 (19%) with a ve-category RUCAM
scale, which was not signicantly different. The two methods exhibited a modest
correlation with each other. It was noted that the RUCAM method decreased the
causality towards less probable than the expert opinion. Importantly, the RUCAM
approach substantially shifted the causality likelihood towards lower probabilities
than the DILI expert opinion process. The results were interpreted to suggest that
the expert opinion process produced higher agreement rates and likelihood scores
than the RUCAM scale. However, the authors noted a substantial interobserver vari-
ability in both methods [78].
The availability of the LiverTox.NIH.gov website has revolutionized and
improved the approach to a patient with suspected DILI [2]. We access it in our
clinic sessions to identify the likely agent in possible DILI cases and generate a
discussion between at least two clinicians to develop an expert opinion.
Clinical Manifestations
Patients with DILI may be asymptomatic or have fatigue, pruritus, or both, depend-
ing on the pattern of liver injury [2, 74, 75].
Physical examination may be normal and may reveal scleral icterus and spider
angiomata, especially in chronic DILI cases. If chronic, patients may have hepato-
megaly, splenomegaly, and ascites, as a sign of decompensation. In sinusoidal
obstruction syndrome (SOS), tender hepatomegaly and ascites are typical, and jaun-
dice can be present. Liver masses are usually identied by radiographic studies,
especially adenomata, which tend not to be palpable. Malignant tumors can present
with palpable liver masses and their complications (Table14.2).
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Table 14.2 Clinical phenotypes of drug-induced liver injury [2]
Clinical
Phenotype
Typical
agents Latency Clinical manifestations Type of liver prole
Liver
histology
Duration of liver
injury/
prognosis
Acute hepatic
necrosis
acetaminophen
aspirin
niacin
intravenous
amiodarone
terbutaline
One to fourteen
days
Nausea, vomiting,
abdominal pain, and
altered mental status,
somnolence and coma
jaundice
systemic involvement
(e.g., renal, bone
marrow, lung)
Hepatocellular Centrilobular necrosis, little
lobular lymphocytic
inltration, minimal or no
brosis or cholestasis
It can be fatal or
associated with
rapid recovery
Acute hepatitis isoniazid,
pyrazinamide,
disulram,
fenobrate, ephedra
greater celandine,
green tea
Two to
24weeks
Prodrome:
inappetence fatigue
nausea,
jaundice,
choluria
Hepatocellular Hepatocellular necrosis,
lobular disarray, lymphocytic
inltration, minimal or no
brosis
Two to four weeks
1) Cholestatic
2) mixed
hepatitis
1) amoxicillin/
clavulanate,
sulfonylureas
rifampin, penicillins,
cephalosporins,
methimazole
2) phenytoin,
carbamapezine,
iamotrigine
sulfonamide,
macrolide antibiotics,
enalapril
1) 2 to
24weeks
2) 4–24weeks
Pruritus and jaundice 1) Cholestatic with
modest
hepatocellular
features and
bilirubin >2mg/dl
2) Cholestatic and
hepatocellular
1) intrahepatic cholestasis
with some inammatory cells
but mild to moderate focal
hepatocellular necrosis
2) intrahepatic cholestasis
with inammatory cells and
moderate to severe
hepatocellular necrosis.
Short or prolonged.
Liver associated
enzymes may
decrease by 50%
over four to twelve
weeks
(continued)
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