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Salvage therapies for individuals intolerant of or refractory to the conventional regimens include high-dose corticosteroids, with or without high-dose azathioprine, 6-mercaptopurine ...

Low-certainty evidence suggests that azathioprine or 6-mercaptopurine therapy may be more effective than placebo for the maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis. More research is needed to ...

Both azathioprine and its derivative, 6-mercaptopurine, are purine analogues that have been used in the treatment of psoriasis and PsA. Although favourable results have been reported, the study ...

I am 71, and I recently saw my urologist for urinating a lot and not getting enough sleep. He performed a flow test and a ...

My son has been diagnosed with a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak. I had never heard of this. He has been told that his brain ...

Crohn’s disease causes inflammation that spreads deeply into the layers of bowel tissue and can lead to life threatening complications. Crohn’s disease is a lifelong chronic condition that ...

1 University of Sheffield, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Academic Unit of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Department of ...

Indeterminate colitis (IC) is a diagnosis used to describe inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) when a person has features of IBD, but it's not yet understood whether they have ulcerative colitis or Crohn ...

1 Department of Emergency, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 2 School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China ...

Objectives B-cell depletion time after rituximab (RTX) treatment is prolonged in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) compared with other autoimmune diseases. We ...