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  2. Hepatotoxicity - Wikipedia

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    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cause of acute and chronic liver disease caused specifically by medications and the most common reason for a drug to be withdrawn from the market after approval. The liver plays a central role in transforming and clearing chemicals and is susceptible to the toxicity from these agents.

  3. Liver disease - Wikipedia

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    Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver, is caused by various viruses (viral hepatitis) also by some liver toxins (e.g. alcoholic hepatitis), autoimmunity (autoimmune hepatitis) or hereditary conditions. [6] Alcoholic liver disease is a hepatic manifestation of alcohol overconsumption, including fatty liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, and ...

  4. Chronic liver disease - Wikipedia

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    The treatment of chronic liver disease depends on the cause. Specific conditions may be treated with medications including corticosteroids , interferon , antivirals , bile acids or other drugs. Supportive therapy for complications of cirrhosis include diuretics , albumin , vitamin K , blood products , antibiotics and nutritional therapy.

  5. Fatty Liver Disease: What Men Need to Know - AOL

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    Causes of Fatty Liver Disease. It’s unclear exactly what causes fatty liver disease when it isn’t caused by alcohol. Potential causes may include: A high-fat diet. Overweight and obesity. Genetics

  6. List of withdrawn drugs - Wikipedia

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    This list is not limited to drugs that were ever approved by the FDA. Some of them (lumiracoxib, rimonabant, tolrestat, ximelagatran and ximelidine, for example) were approved to be marketed in Europe but had not yet been approved for marketing in the US, when side effects became clear and their developers pulled them from the market.

  7. Dacarbazine - Wikipedia

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    Common side effects include loss of appetite, vomiting, low white blood cell count, and low platelets. [3] Other serious side effects include liver problems and allergic reactions. [3] It is unclear if use in pregnancy is safe for the baby. [3] Dacarbazine is in the alkylating agent and purine analog families of medication. [3]

  8. The discovery could help doctors better diagnose liver-related disease and determine appropriate treatment options, said Dr. Anna Mae Diehl, a hepatologist and a professor of medicine at Duke.

  9. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    The liver damage can consist of damage to liver cells, hepatic sinusoidal syndrome (obstruction of the veins in the liver), cholestasis (where bile does not flow from the liver to the intestine) and liver fibrosis. [127] [128] Nephrotoxicity (kidney damage) can be caused by tumor lysis syndrome and also due direct effects of drug clearance by ...