Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: Amelioration of pruritus by UDCA is associated with decreased progesterone disulphates in urine

Hepatology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 544-551

  Glantz, Anna ^a   Reilly, Sarah Jayne ^b   Benthin, Lisbet ^b   Lammert, Frank ^c   Mattsson, Lars Åke ^a   Marschall, Hanns Ulrich ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID; DEXAMETHASONE; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE DISULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BILIARY EXCRETION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACEBOS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGESTERONE; PRURITUS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STEROIDS; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 39549090422     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21987     Document Type: Article

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