HEPATOX(C) - A DATABASE ABOUT HEPATOTOXIC DRUGS

Hepatox (C) is a data base on the hepatotoxic drugs file published eve ry year in Gastroenterologie Clinique et Biologique. The program was d eveloped under Omnis 7(R) for Apple computers, and under Visul Basic P rofessionnal Toolkit(R) and Code Base(R) for IBM PC and compatibles co mputers. The data base includes forms of 866 drugs identified by their approved name and those of their 1 300 corresponding proprietary name s in France; drugs are distributed among 104 pharmacological classes. It is possible to have instantaneously access to the card of a drug id entified by its approved name. Acceding to a drug identified by its pr oprietary name gives a list of the approved name of its components; go ing from a name of this list to the correspondent card of hepatoxicity is immediate. It is easy to extract lists of drugs responsable of a t ype of hepatic injury, and a table of types of hepatic injuries induce d by the drugs of a pharmacological class.