Effect of livergol on the improvement of fatty liver in patients with cancer undergoing irinotecan‑ and oxaliplatin‑based chemotherapy regimen

Background: the aim of this study was to determine the effect of livergol on the improvement of fatty liver in patients with cancer undergoing irinotecan‑ and oxaliplatin‑based chemotherapy regimen. materials and methods: this was an add‑on nonrandomized clinical trial study on thirty selected eligible cancer patients undergoing irinotecan (8 patients) and oxaliplatin (22 patients) with diagnosed fatty liver disease‑based liver ultrasonography, as well as alanine aminotransferase (alt) and aspartate aminotransferase (ast). patients in each group received livergol at a dose of 140 mg daily for 1 month. alt and ast levels as well as grade of fatty liver were evaluated before and after intervention. results: in the oxaliplatin/livergol group, 40% and 44.4% of patients who were in grade 2 and 3 before intervention were altered to grades 1 and 2, respectively (p = 0.005), and in irinotecan/livergol group, the mentioned percentages were 80% and 66.7% (p = 0.014). the mean levels of alt and ast enzymes were decreased in both groups after tacking livergol; however, the observed decreases were not significantly different between groups. conclusion: it was concluded that the adding of livergol to oxaliplatin and irinotecan regimens significantly improved the fatty liver of patients and none of them was superior.