Severe cholestatic acute hepatitis following azathioprine therapy in a patient with ulcerative pancolitis

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 914-915

  Roda, G ^a   Caponi, A ^a   Belluzzi, A ^a   Roda, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; LIVER ENZYME; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MESALAMINE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 70350572277     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.03.004     Document Type: Letter

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