Antibiotics: Single Largest Class Of Drugs Causing Liver Injury

Antibiotics are the single largest class of agents that cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI), reports a new study in Gastroenterology, an official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. DILI is the most common cause of death from acute liver failure and accounts for approximately 13 percent of cases of acute liver failure in the U.S.

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Filed under: GastroIntestinal / Gastroentorology on December 2nd, 2008