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Safety and Efficacy of Azathioprine as a Second Line Therapy for Primary Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2016
Introduction: Immune thrombocytopenic purpura remains common blood disease in Nepal. Azathioprine is an oral immunosupressive medicine which has been used widely in various autoimmune disease and solid organ transplant patients. It is inexpensive, easily
Bishesh Sharma Poudyal, Binaya Sapkota, Gentle Sunder Shrestha, Sujan Thapalia, Bishal Gyawali, Sampurna Tuladhar   +5 more
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Use of thiopurines in inflammatory bowel disease: an update [PDF]

Intestinal Research, 2022
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), once considered a disease of the Western hemisphere, has emerged as a global disease. As the disease prevalence is on a steady rise, management of IBD has come under the spotlight.
Arshdeep Singh, Ramit Mahajan, Saurabh Kedia, Amit Kumar Dutta, Abhinav Anand, Charles N. Bernstein, Devendra Desai, C. Ganesh Pai, Govind Makharia, Harsh Vardhan Tevethia, Joyce WY Mak, Kirandeep Kaur, Kiran Peddi, Mukesh Kumar Ranjan, Perttu Arkkila, Rakesh Kochhar, Rupa Banerjee, Saroj Kant Sinha, Siew Chien Ng, Stephen Hanauer, Suhang Verma, Usha Dutta, Vandana Midha, Varun Mehta, Vineet Ahuja, Ajit Sood   +25 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Rituximab in Immunobullous Diseases: A Retrospective Study from a Tertiary Care Centre of Nepal [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Introduction: Rituximab is effective and safe treatment of immunobullous disorders. There are variations in doses of drugs used in different studies and uncertainties on when to use it along with use of adjuvant therapies. Efficacy and safety of this
Sudip Parajuli, Jyoti Vidhan, Dinesh Binod Pokhrel, Upama Paudel   +3 more
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Predicted expression of genes involved in the thiopurine metabolic pathway and azathioprine discontinuation due to myelotoxicity

Clinical and Translational Science, 2022
TPMT and NUDT15 variants explain less than 25% of azathioprine‐associated myelotoxicity. There are 25 additional genes in the thiopurine pathway that could also contribute to azathioprine myelotoxicity.
Laura L. Daniel, Alyson L. Dickson, Jacy T. Zanussi, Tyne W. Miller‐Fleming, Peter S. Straub, Wei‐Qi Wei, W. Dale Plummer, William D. Dupont, Ge Liu, Prathima Anandi, Tyler S. Reese, Kelly A. Birdwell, Vivian K. Kawai, Adriana M. Hung, Nancy J. Cox, QiPing Feng, C. Michael Stein, Cecilia P. Chung   +17 more
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Effectiveness of Echinacea purpurea extract on immune deficiency induced by azathioprine in male albino rats

Bioscience Journal, 2021
This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of Echinacea purpurea (E.P.) on azathioprine (AZA)-induced immune deficiency in albino rats. Thirty six male albino rats were divided into six equal groups.
Emad Mohamed El-Sherbiny, Hala Fawzy Osman, Mervat Sayed Taha   +2 more
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Azathioprine for multiple sclerosis [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2007
Azathioprine (AZA) is an immunosuppressive drug widely prescribed for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) until the first half of the 1990s. It could be an alternative to interferon beta because it is less expensive. Concerns about its safety, mainly a possible increased risk of malignancy, have been raised.
CASETTA, Ilaria, Iuliano G, Filippini G.
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Association Between Genetic Polymorphisms of Metabolic Enzymes and Azathioprine-Induced Myelosuppression in 1,419 Chinese Patients: A Retrospective Study

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between genetic polymorphisms of azathioprine-metabolizing enzymes and adverse reactions of myelosuppression. To this end, a retrospective analysis was performed on 1,419 Chinese patients involving
Zhao-Yang Chen, Yang-Hui Zhu, Ling-Yan Zhou, Wei-Qiao Shi, Zhou Qin, Bin Wu, Yu Yan, Yu-Wen Pei, Ning-Ning Chao, Rui Zhang, Mi-Ye Wang, Ze-Hao Su, Xiao-Jun Lu, Zhi-Yao He, Zhi-Yao He, Ting Xu, Ting Xu   +16 more
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Acute pancreatitis in a kidney transplant recipient and proposal of a step-wise diagnostic algorithm - A case report

Indian Journal of Transplantation, 2021
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a rarely encountered complication in patients following kidney transplantation and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Praveen Kumar Etta, Thatipamula Madhavi, Namrata Parikh   +2 more
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Discontinuation rate of azathioprine

Liver International, 2020
Contains fulltext : 229399.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Romée J. A. L. M. Snijders, Simon Pape, Tom J. G. Gevers, Joost P. H. Drenth   +3 more
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Change in hematologic indices over time in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease treated with azathioprine [PDF]

, 2010
Azathioprine leads to changes in mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and white blood cell (WBC) indices reflecting efficacy or toxicity. Understanding the interactions between bone marrow stem cells and azathioprine could highlight abnormal response patterns ...
A Timmer, AC Mackey, AG Fraser, Chris J. Taylor, CN Bernstein, CW Thomas Jr, David I. Campbell, DH Present, Dhandapani Ashok, I Tiede, J Glas, LJ Derijks, P Karran, S Al-Safi, Sally A. Connolly, Samantha J. Cordell, Sherman Soman, W Disanti, Y Masunaga   +18 more
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