Vincent Lo Re, Kevin Haynes, Kimberly A Forde, David S Goldberg, James D Lewis, Dena M Carbonari, Kimberly B F Leidl, K Rajender Reddy, Melissa S Nezamzadeh, Jason Roy, Daohang Sha, Amy R Marks, Jolanda De Boer, Jennifer L Schneider, Brian L Strom, Douglas A Corley
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Few studies have evaluated the ability of laboratory tests to predict risk of acute liver failure (ALF) among patients with drug-induced liver injury (DILI). We aimed to develop a highly sensitive model to identify DILI patients at increased risk of ALF. We compared its performance with that of Hy's Law, which predicts severity of DILI based on levels of alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase and total bilirubin, and validated the model in a separate sample...
December 2015: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology