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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 225-226 |
Risk factors for drug-induced hepatitis with first-line antituberculosis drugs in hospitalized patients of pulmonary tuberculosis
SM Pore1, KB Shinde2
1 Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Miraj, Maharashtra, India
2 Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Sarvopchar Rugnalaya, Solapur, Maharashtra, India
| Date of Web Publication | 13-May-2014 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. S M Pore
Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Miraj, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.132391
How to cite this article:
Pore S M, Shinde K B. Risk factors for drug-induced hepatitis with first-line antituberculosis drugs in hospitalized patients of pulmonary tuberculosis. J Postgrad Med 2014;60:225-6 |
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Pore S M, Shinde K B. Risk factors for drug-induced hepatitis with first-line antituberculosis drugs in hospitalized patients of pulmonary tuberculosis. J Postgrad Med [serial online] 2014 [cited 2023 May 31];60:225-6. Available from: https://www.jpgmonline.com/text.asp?2014/60/2/225/132391 |
Sir,
We appreciate the comments on our paper and accept them and the flawed analysis. A new univariate analysis is now presented in [Table 1]. The primary reason for selecting previous antituberculosis therapy (ATT) as a risk factor rather than previous history of hepatitis was our dependence on recorded data. This study being retrospective and record-based, we had a limited choice of risk factors. Previous ATT was deemed as a risk factor because the exact mechanism of drug induced liver toxicity is poorly understood; it may result from direct toxicity of the primary compound, a metabolite, or from an immunologically mediated response, affecting hepatocytes, biliary epithelial cells, and/or liver vasculature. [1] It is well known that immunological response is affected by previous exposure. There is previous literature to support this. [2] In the new univariate analysis, the odd's ratio (OR) for previous ATT is less than one. However, an OR value below 1.00 is not directly interpretable. [3] The OR for females developing DIH is now calculated to be 0.958 as against the previous value of 2.515. Considering 257 patients of HIV co-infection for whom data were available, it was thus not a significant risk factor in this study. Though HIV testing is advised to all tuberculosis patients to facilitate early detection of HIV infection, it is voluntary, not mandatory. Central TB division (CTD) and the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) have adopted the policy of routinely offering voluntary HIV counselling and testing to all TB patients. [4] It is important to note that depending on the definition of drug induced hepatitis, HIV infection may or may not be associated with antituberculosis-drug-induced hepatotoxicity. [5] We agree that identification of previous ATT and female gender as risk factors in the earlier paper were flawed. Alcohol abuse is the only significant risk factor in new univariate analysis carried out.
| :: Acknowledgment | |  |
We are grateful to Dr. Jadhav SL, Professor in Community Medicine, Pd Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Pimpri, Pune for his valuable guidance.
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