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Mortality and drug exposure in a 5-year cohort of patients with chronic liver disease

Hug, Balthasar L. and Lipsitz, Stuart R. and Seger, Diane L. and Karson, Andrew S. and Wright, Steven C. and Bates, David W.. (2009) Mortality and drug exposure in a 5-year cohort of patients with chronic liver disease. Swiss Medical Weekly, 139 (51-52). pp. 737-746.

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Abstract

Chronic liver diseases are common in the general population. Drug treatment in this group may be challenging, as many drugs are hepatically metabolised and hepatotoxic.; We aimed to assess the mortality of patients with chronic liver disease according to specific drug exposures and the three laboratory parameters creatinine, bilirubin and International Normalised Ratio (INR).; We conducted a multicentre, 5-year retrospective cohort study in two tertiary university referral hospitals and a secondary referral hospital, using a research database to evaluate the crude and adjusted mortality.; Of 1159362 individual patients 1.7% (n = 20158) had chronic liver disease and in this group 36.8% had unspecified chronic non-alcoholic liver disease, 30.1% chronic hepatitis C and 11.9% cirrhosis of the liver. 8.4% of patients presented a diagnosis associated with alcohol. The 4-year survival rates were significantly higher in the group with the most normal laboratory values (94.3%) versus 34.5% in the group with elevated parameters (p >0.001). Overall, drug exposure was not associated with higher mortality; in adjusted multivariate analysis the hazard ratio for anti-cancer drugs was 2.69 (95% CI 1.32-5.46). Of individual drugs, mortality hazard ratios for amiodarone, morphine oral, acetazolamide, sirolimus and lamivudine were 2.46 (95% CI 1.68-3.61), 2.26 (95% CI 1.78-2.86), 2.10 (95% CI 1.19-3.70), 1.81 (95% CI 1.02-3.21) and 1.72 (95% CI 1.17-2.53) respectively.; Drug exposure in general was not associated with higher mortality except for a few categories. Mortality in patients with chronic liver disease was high and is associated with simple laboratory values.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Ehemalige Einheiten Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Stationäre innere Medizin (Schifferli)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Ehemalige Einheiten Medizinische Fächer (Klinik) > Stationäre innere Medizin (Schifferli)
UniBasel Contributors:Hug, Balthasar L.
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag
ISSN:1424-7860
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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