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Antibiotic-associated acute vanishing bile duct syndrome: a pattern associated with severe, prolonged, intrahepatic
M H Davies1, R F Harrison, E Elias
1Birmingham Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
Journal of Hepatology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
We report cases of amoxycillin- and flucloxacillin-induced liver damage associated with an acute vanishing bile duct syndrome. Ductopenia was present at the time of first liver biopsy, 3 weeks and 3 months after administration of the two drugs, respectively. Ductopenia apparently occurred as the primary lesion, with no evidence of accompanying portal tract inflammation. Subsequent biopsies showed a persistent paucity of ducts, accompanied by increasing features of chronic cholestasis. Biochemical dysfunction persists at 2 year's follow-up and late prognosis remains guarded.