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Two Brothers with Skewed Thiopurine Metabolism in Ulcerative Colitis Treated Successfully with Allopurinol and Mercaptopurine Dose Reduction

Thiopurine therapy effectively maintains remission in inflammatory bowel disease. However, many patients are unable to achieve optimum benefits from azathioprine or 6-mercaptopurine because of undesirable metabolism related to high thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) activity characterized by hepati...

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Hauptverfasser: Hoentjen, Frank, Hanauer, Stephen B., de Boer, Nanne K., Rubin, David T.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Springer US 2011
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253335/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22147254
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10620-011-1999-x
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