Cytolytic Hepatitis: A Rare Complication Of Oral Contraceptives
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Correspondence
Akash Chaudhary MD DM
Asst Professor, Department of Medical Gastroenterology
Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta,
Hyderabad(A.P). 500082 India
E-mail : drakashchaudhary@yahoo.co.in
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Drugs form one of the most frequent and important reversible causes of cholestatic hepatitis. Oral contraceptive pills usually cause bland cholestasis. Hepatic cytolysis is rarely reported as a complication of OC pills. We report here a case of a young female with background history of intra-hepatic cholestasis of pregnancy , who presented to us with features suggestive of acute viral hepatitis with cholestasis and was later diagnosed to have oral contraceptive pill induced hepatic cytolysis.