| ABSTRACTDrug induced liver injury (DILI) is a liver injury caused by a drug or its metabolites after using one or more drugs. The common drugs that cause DILI include traditional Chinese medicine,anti tuberculosis medicine, antitumor drug, antipyretic analgesics, antibiotics and so on. At present, health care products, diet pills, food additives and other causes liver function injury is more and more attention by clinicians. DILI is characterized by acute or chronic liver damage, and for a worse situation, it can cause liver cirrhosis, patients with slight symptom can recover after stopping using the drugs. However, patients with severe symptom will suffer from icteric,liver failure, and a variety of life threatening complications. With the improvement of living standards, changes of living habits and the increase of drug types,the incidence of DILI increases year by year, and more and more attention is being paid to the related problems in etiology, diagnosis and treatment. This paper will study DILI's diagnosis, treatment and prognosis and then make reviews to them. |
