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Severe Complication of Thiopurine Treatment in a Young Woman with Crohn’s Disease

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2021
Case Description: TA 28-year old woman receiving thiopurine treatment for Crohn’s disease presented with a systemic primo cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection affecting the gut (colitis), liver (hepatitis), lungs (pneumonitis) and eyes (retinitis).
Michiel PJ Voet, TGA Calon, MMC Hendriks, RM Schreuder   +3 more
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Combination treatment with 6-mercaptopurine and allopurinol in HepG2 and HEK293 cells - Effects on gene expression levels and thiopurine metabolism. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Combination treatment with low-dose thiopurine and allopurinol (AP) has successfully been used in patients with inflammatory bowel disease with a so called skewed thiopurine metabolite profile.
Sofie Haglund, Svante Vikingsson, Sven Almer, Jan Söderman   +3 more
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Thiopurines: Recent Topics and Their Role in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) of unknown etiology, characterized by repeated relapse and remission. The efficacy of thiopurine in IBD was first reported in the late 1960s.
Keiichi Tominaga, Takeshi Sugaya, Takanao Tanaka, Mimari Kanazawa, Makoto Iijima, Atsushi Irisawa   +5 more
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TPMT and NUDT15 testing for thiopurine therapy: A major tertiary hospital experience and lessons learned

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Variants in thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) and nudix hydrolase 15 (NUDT15) are associated with an accumulation of cytotoxic metabolites leading to increased risk of drug-related toxicity with standard doses of thiopurine drugs.
Liuh Ling Goh, Chia Wei Lim, Khai Pang Leong, Khai Pang Leong, Kiat Hoe Ong, Kiat Hoe Ong   +5 more
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Risk Factors for Postoperative Recurrence in Korean Patients with Crohn’s Disease

Gut and Liver, 2020
Background/Aims: A considerable number of patients with Crohn’s disease still need intestinal resection surgery. Postoperative recurrence is an important issue in Crohn’s disease management, including the selection of high-risk patients.
Sung Bae Kim, Jae Hee Cheon, Jae Jun Park, Eun Soo Kim, Seong Woo Jeon, Sung-Ae Jung, Dong Il Park, Chang Kyun Lee, Jong Pil Im, You Sun Kim, Hyun Soo Kim, Jun Lee, Chang Soo Eun, Jeong Mi Lee, Byung Ik Jang, Geom Seog Seo   +15 more
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Essential Updates in the Surgical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Current Topics From 2024 to Mid‐2026

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Inflammatory bowel disease management has undergone a major transformation with the introduction of treat‐to‐target strategies and highly effective biologic and small‐molecule therapies. Although these advances have reduced the overall requirement for surgery, operative intervention remains essential for selected patients with ulcerative ...
Yoshiki Okita, Tadanobu Shimura, Mikio Kawamura, Yuhki Koike, Yuji Toiyama   +4 more
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Prevention of thiopurine-induced early leukopenia in a Korean pediatric patient with Crohn’s disease who turned out to possess homozygous mutations in R139C [PDF]

Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine, 2020
Homozygous mutations in NUDT15 R139C are known as the major factor associated with thiopurine-induced early leukopenia, particularly in Asian patients. Therefore, NUDT15 genotyping is currently recommended before thiopurine treatment to identify patients
Jaewoan Bae, Byung-Ho Choe, Ben Kang
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Increased Risk of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Exposed to Azathioprine

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate the risk of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) in azathioprine (AZA)–exposed versus unexposed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) pregnancies within the multicenter prospective Lupus in Pregnancy (LEGACY) cohort. Methods LEGACY is conducted at Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics in Canada, South Korea, Peru,
Reem Farhat, Maria del Carmen Zamora‐Medina, Sang‐Cheol Bae, Megan R. W. Barber, Ann E. Clarke, Paul R. Fortin, Zahi Touma, Carl A. Laskin, Isabelle Malhamé, Giada Sebastiani, Christine Peschken, Manuel F. Ugarte‐Gil, Alexandra Legge, Sasha Bernatsky, Évelyne Vinet   +14 more
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What Happens to Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Who Are Intolerant to Thiopurines?

Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases
Introduction: The clinical consequences for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who stop treatment owing to side effects have not been fully investigated.
Helena Gensmyr-Singer, Pontus Karling
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Oral vancomycin solution is superior to capsule in inducing clinical biomarker and endoscopic remission in children with atypical ulcerative colitis

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Atypical colitis (presenting reverse gradient colitis, backwash ileitis or rectal sparing) is associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis–ulcerative colitis (PSC). Oral vancomycin has been used to manage paediatric atypical colitis with/without confirmed PSC. Different preparations had shown different efficacy.
Laura Räisänen, Fariha Balouch, Claire Reilly, Christopher Burgess, Peter Lewindon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source