Chinese Hepatolgy ›› 2017, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (10): 885-887.

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Clinical characteristics and associated factors in patients with statins induced liver injury

CHEN Bu-kuan   

  1. Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Jianhu People′s Hospital, Jianhu 224700, China
  • Received:2017-05-22 Online:2017-10-15 Published:2020-06-16

Abstract: Objective To investigate the characteristics of patients with statins-induced liver injury.Methods Twenty-six patients with statins-induced liver injury were enrolled, and age, sex, liver disease history, clinical manifestations, laboratory index, drugs, treatments, etc. were retrospectively analyzed.Results Among all the patients, 19 were female and 7 were male. Clinical manifestations included poor appetite, fatigue, yellow urine and so on. Hepatocellular type was the predominant type in these cases. Five kinds of drugs were involved, mainly including simvastatin, atorvastatin, and rosuvastatin.Conclusion Patients with statins-induced liver injury had various clinical manifestations with comparatively good prognosis.

Key words: Statins, Drug-induced liver injury