Monitoring for hepatotoxicity: what is the predictive value of liver "function" tests?
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a major reason drugs fail during development or are withdrawn from the market. The ability to predict, detect, and avoid DILI through appropriate patient selection and effective monitoring has proved to be an elusive goal. Many approved drugs have labeling recommendations for serum enzyme monitoring intended to detect and prevent hepatotoxicity, but such monitoring is often seen as inconvenient, uncomfortable, costly, and inefficient by both patients and doctors, and thus monitoring recommendations are poorly followed, if at all. This review considers whether monitoring works to prevent DILI, whether monitoring recommendations are derived from data or opinions, and whether any better alternatives exist.
Senior
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Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. john.senior@fda.hhs.gov
D000818:Animals; D056486:Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism; D008111:Liver Function Tests / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests