Cholestatic hepatitis azathioprine

Fatal fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis has been reported in a 63-year-old cardiac transplant patient with acquired post-transplant hepatitis C virus infection whose immunosuppressive regimen included azathioprine... 

Van Vlierberghe H, Elewaut A. Development of a necrotising pancreatitis after startup lamivudine in a kidney transplant patient widi fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis A possible role of the interaction lamivudine and azathioprine. Gastroenterology (1997) 112 (4 Suppl), A1407. 

A 50-year-old man with ulcerative coUtis developed severe acute cholestatic hepatitis after taking azathioprine for 20 days. Despite withdrawal of azathioprine and methylpred-nisolone therapy it persisted for 2 months and may have been coincidental [129 ]. 

Roda G, Caponi A, Belluzzi A, Roda E. Severe cholestatic acute hepatitis following azathioprine therapy in a patient with ulcerative pancolitis. Dig Liver Dis 2009 41(12) 914-5. 

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