Criteria Used in Clinical Practice to Guide Immunosuppressive Treatment in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.

Current guidelines recommend immunosuppressive treatment (IT) in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and elevated aminotransferase levels more than five times the upper limit of normal and elevated serum IgG-levels above twice the upper limit of normal. Since there is no evidence to s...

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Main Authors: Kornelius Schulze, Tobias J Weismüller, Michael Bubenheim, Peter Huebener, Roman Zenouzi, Henrike Lenzen, Christian Rupp, Daniel Gotthardt, Philipp de Leuw, Andreas Teufel, Vincent Zimmer, Florian P Reiter, Christian Rust, Lars Tharun, Alexander Quaas, Sören A Weidemann, Frank Lammert, Christoph Sarrazin, Michael P Manns, Ansgar W Lohse, Christoph Schramm, German PSC Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4619354?pdf=render