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ArticleOxford medical case reports2019

Two case reports of corticosteroid administration-prolonged and pulsed therapy-in treatment of pruritus in cholestatic hepatitis A patients.

Daad Daghman, Mohamad Saeed Rez, Amjad Soltany, Almotaman Alsaleh

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Article in Oxford medical case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daad DaghmanTeacher of Gastroenterology, Department of Gastro-enterology Faculty of Medicine, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria, Teacher of Gastroenterology at Al Andalus University for Medical Science, Tartous, Syria.
Mohamad Saeed RezDepartment of Neurology, Al-Bassel Hospital, Tartus, Syria.
Amjad SoltanyDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Al Mouwasat University Hospital, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic.
Almotaman AlsalehDepartment of Cardiology, Tishreen University Hospital, Lattakia, Syria.
Al Andalus University · SYAl Assad University Hospital · SYTishreen University · SY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cholestasis following hepatitis A affects around 0.8% of hepatitis A patients. It is considered a distressing complication in spite of its good prognosis. Despite being subject to multiple studies, causes of cholestasis are still controversial. Many treatments (discussed later) have shown some improvements of the accompanied pruritus. In the following article, we present two cholestatic hepatitis A patients who suffered from severe pruritus. Prednisolone was administered via two different methods: prolonged and pulsed. Both showed great improvement of the pruritus in a short time frame. To the best of our knowledge, our management using pulsed corticosteroid therapy in treatment of pruritus in cholestatic hepatitis A is considered the first experimental management in medical literature. The importance of this experimental case lies in reducing the doses and the duration of steroid intake, thus reducing steroid side effects as far as possible.

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PMCPMC6736123
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