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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2019

Effect of Lubiprostone on Urinary Protein Excretion: A Report of Two IgA Nephropathy Patients with Chronic Constipation.

Mitsuhide Takeshita, Atsushi Tanaka, Tsukasa Nakamura, Eiichi Sato, Koichi Node

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Mitsuhide TakeshitaDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Japan.
Atsushi TanakaDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Japan.
Tsukasa NakamuraDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shinmatsudo Central General Hospital, Japan.
Eiichi SatoDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shinmatsudo Central General Hospital, Japan.
Koichi NodeDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disturbance of the normal gut microbiota has been implicated in the pathogenesis of various diseases, including chronic kidney disease (CKD). A common CKD symptom is chronic constipation. Lubiprostone is a safe and efficacious drug for treating chronic constipation. We herein report 2 patients with IgA nephropathy treated with lubiprostone (24 μg 1×/day). The lubiprostone treatment ameliorated their chronic constipation and, unexpectedly, reduced the urinary protein excretion, urinary liver-type fatty acid binding protein and urine occult blood. These results may indicate that lubiprostone is a useful therapeutic intervention against the progression of IgA nephropathy with chronic constipation.

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AdultChronic DiseaseConstipationDisease ProgressionFatty Acid-Binding ProteinsFemaleGlomerulonephritis, IGAHumansLubiprostoneOccult BloodProteinuriaFABP1 protein, humanFatty Acid-Binding ProteinsLubiprostonechronic kidney diseaseconstipationgut microbiotalubiprostoneurinary protein excretion

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PMID31292404
PMCPMC6911766

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