TY  - JOUR
A1  - Teschke, Rolf
A1  - Wolff, Albrecht Titus
A1  - Frenzel, Christian
A1  - Schwarzenböck, Alexander
A1  - Schulze, Johannes B.
A1  - Eickhoff, Axel Stefan
T1  - Drug and herb induced liver injury : council for international organizations of medical sciences scale for causality assessment
T2  - World journal of hepatology
N2  - Causality assessment of suspected drug induced liver injury (DILI) and herb induced liver injury (HILI) is hampered by the lack of a standardized approach to be used by attending physicians and at various subsequent evaluating levels. The aim of this review was to analyze the suitability of the liver specific Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) scale as a standard tool for causality assessment in DILI and HILI cases. PubMed database was searched for the following terms: drug induced liver injury; herb induced liver injury; DILI causality assessment; and HILI causality assessment. The strength of the CIOMS lies in its potential as a standardized scale for DILI and HILI causality assessment. Other advantages include its liver specificity and its validation for hepatotoxicity with excellent sensitivity, specificity and predictive validity, based on cases with a positive reexposure test. This scale allows prospective collection of all relevant data required for a valid causality assessment. It does not require expert knowledge in hepatotoxicity and its results may subsequently be refined. Weaknesses of the CIOMS scale include the limited exclusion of alternative causes and qualitatively graded risk factors. In conclusion, CIOMS appears to be suitable as a standard scale for attending physicians, regulatory agencies, expert panels and other scientists to provide a standardized, reproducible causality assessment in suspected DILI and HILI cases, applicable primarily at all assessing levels involved.
KW  - Drug induced liver injury
KW  - Drug hepatotoxicity
KW  - Herb induced liver injury
KW  - Herbal hepatotoxicity
KW  - Causality assessment
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34382
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-343827
SN  - 1948-5182
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
SP  - 17
EP  - 32
PB  - Beijing Baishideng BioMed Scientific Co.
CY  - Beijing
ER  -