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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Causes

Common Causes

Acute hepatitis

• Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis A to E (more than 95% of viral cause), Herpes simplex, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr, yellow fever virus, adenoviruses.
• Non viral infection: toxoplasma, Leptospira, Q fever, rocky mountain spotted fever
• Alcohol
• Toxins: Amanita toxin in mushrooms, carbon tetrachloride, asafetida
• Drugs: Paracetamol, amoxycillin, antituberculosis medicines, minocycline and many others (see longer list below).
• Ischemic hepatitis (circulatory insufficiency)
• Pregnancy
• Auto immune conditions, e.g. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
• Metabolic diseases, e.g. Wilson's disease

Chronic hepatitis

• Viral hepatitis: Hepatitis B with or without hepatitis D, hepatitis C (Hepatitis A and E do not lead to chronic disease)
• Autoimmune: Autoimmune hepatitis
• Alcohol
• Drugs: methyl-dopa, nitrofurantoin, isoniazide, ketoconazole
• Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
• Heredity: Wilson's disease, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency
• Primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis occasionally mimic chronic hepatitis

Causes in Alphabetical Order

5-Azacytidine Abacavir Abiraterone Acute fatty liver of pregnancy Adenoviridae Agomelatine Albendazole Alcohol Alcoholic liver disease Allopurinol Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency Altretamine Amatoxins Amineptine Amiodarone Amitriptyline Amoxicillin Amphotericin B Amprenavir Amyloidosis Anabolic steroids Anaplasma Ancylostoma Antituberculosis drugs Apixaban Arenaviruses Arsenic trioxide Asafetida Ascaris lumbricoides Asparaginase Asperigillus Atorvastatin Atovaquone Autoimmune hepatitis Azathioprine Babesia Bartonella Baylisascaris Benoxaprofen Bexarotene Black cohosh extract Bosentan Bosutinib Bromfenac Bumetanide Bunyaviruses Candida Capillaria hepatica Carbon tetrachloride Cardiac failure Carfilzomib Carnitine palmitoyltransferase deficiency Cascara Caspofungin Chaparral Chenodeoxycholic acid Chlamydia trachomatis Chlormezanone Chlorzoxazone Cholangiocarcinoma Cholestatic hepatitis Ciprofloxacin Cirrhosis of liver Clofarabine Clonorchiasis Combined oral contraceptive pill Comfrey Copper salts Coronaviridae Coxiella burnetti Crizotinib Cryptococcus Cryptosporidium Cyclobenzaprine Cystic fibrosis Cytomegalovirus Dantrolene Daptomycin Dasatinib Deferasirox Dengue Desipramine Diclofenac Dicrocoelium dendriticum fluke Disulfiram Docetaxel Donepezil Dothiepin Dronedarone Echinococcus Eclampsia Ehrlichia Eltrombopag Emtricitabine Entamoeba histolytica Entecavir Ephedra Epstein-Barr virus Erlotinib Erythromycin estolate Erythropoietic protoporphyria Erythrovirus Ethanol Ethinylestradiol Ethionamide Etretinate Fasciola hepatica Fasciolopsis buski Febuxostat Felbamate Fenofibrate

Filoviruses Fingolimod Flaviviruses Fluconazole Flucytosine Fluoxymesterone Flutamide Fluvastatin Fosamprenavir Frusemide Fusidic acid Ganciclovir Gemcitabine Gemtuzumab ozogamicin Glutaric acidemia Glycine N-methyltransferase deficiency Glycogenosis Gold salts Golimumab Graft versus host disease Gyromitrin Haemochromatosis Haemosiderosis Halothane Heat stroke HELLP syndrome Hepadnaviridae Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Hepatitis G virus Hepatocellular carcinoma Hepeviridae Herpes viruses HHH syndrome Histiocytosis X Histoplasma Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis Hyperemesis gravidarum Imatinib mesylate Imipenem Infantile papular acrodermatitis Infectious mononucleosis Interferon alpha Interferon beta Interleukin 2 Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy Ipilimumab Iron compounds Ischemic hepatitis Isoniazid Isospora Isotretinoin Kava root extract Kawasaki disease Ketoconazole Lapatinib ditosylate Lassa fever Lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase deficiency Leflunomide Legionella pneumophila Leishmania Lemierre syndrome Leptospirosis Listeria Liver metastases Lovastatin Lyme disease Macrophage activation syndrome Maraviroc Marburg virus Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency Meropenem Mesalazine Methanol Methotrexate Methyldopa Methyldopa Methyldopate Metorchis Micafungin Microsporidium Minocycline Mirtazapine Mithramycin Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, hepatocerebral form Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycoplasma pneumoniae Naltrexone Nandrolone Nanukayami Natalizumab Navajo neurohepatopathy Necator Nelfinavir Nevirapine Niacin Nicotinic acid Nimesulide Nitisinone Nitrofurantoin Nocardia Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis Norfloxacin North american indian childhood cirrhosis Nortriptyline Novosphingobium aromaticivorans Ondansetron Opisthorchiasis

Organic solvent Orientia tsutsugamushi Orthomyxoviruses Oxyphenisatine Paclitaxel Pancreatic cancer Para-amino salicylic acid Paracetamol Paragonimus Paraquat Parenteral nutrition Parvovirus B19 infection Parvoviruses Patent ductus venosus Pazopanib Pegvisomant Pemoline Pentostatin Phenelzine Phenylbutazone Phenytoin Picarnoviridae Plasmodium Polychlorinated biphenyls Porphyria cutanea tarda type 2 Pralatrexate Pravastatin Pre-eclampsia Primary biliary cirrhosis Procainamide Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis Propylthiouracil Prothionamide Prototheca Psittacosis Pyrazinamide Pyritinol Pyrrolizidine alkaloids Q fever Radiotherapy Regorafenib Reovirus Reye syndrome Rhodococcus Rickettsia Rifabutin Rifampicin Riluzole Ritonavir Rivaroxaban Rosuvastatin Salmonella Saquinavir Schistosoma haematobium Secondary syphilis Selenium Sickle cell disease Simvastatin Sitaxentan Sorafenib Stanozolol Statins Streptococcus pyogenes Strongyloides stercoralis Succimer Suloctidil Sulphasalazine Sulphinpyrazone Systemic lupus erythematosus Systemic sclerosis Sytemic primary carnitine deficiency Tegafur Telithromycin Teriflunomide Tertiary syphilis Thiabendazole Thioguanine Ticlopidine Tipranavir Tizanidine Tolbutamide Tolcapone Tolrestat Toluene Toxocara Toxoplasma Trabectedin Treponema pallidum Troglitazone Trovafloxacin Typhoid fever Typhus Tyrosinemia Ursodeoxycholic acid Valganciclovir Valproic acid Velnacrine Verapamil Vinyl chloride Viral haemorrhagic fever Visceral leishmaniasis Voriconazole Wilson disease Ximelagatran X-linked lymphoproliferative disease Yellow fever Yersinia Zellweger spectrum Zotepine