Rifampicin and treatment of cholestatic pruritus [4]

Gut

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 756-757

  Hofmann, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID; COLESEVELAM; COLESTYRAMINE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; RIFAMPICIN;

BILE ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BILE ACID METABOLISM; CONSTIPATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG RESPONSE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; ILEUM BYPASS; LETTER; LIVER TOXICITY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS;

ALLYLAMINE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; CHOLESTASIS; HUMANS; PRURITUS; RIFAMPIN;

EID: 0036838580     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.51.5.756     Document Type: Letter

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