General Internal Medicine

Mycophenolate Mofetil

Questions discussed in this category

How do you counsel patients who experience diarrhea from mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept)?

Do you generally recommend anti-diarrheals, dietary modifications, or consider this an unacceptable side effect and move to other therapies?

2 Answers available

In patients with lupus nephritis on maintenance therapy, is there additional benefit in utilizing 2 grams vs 3 grams of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) daily?

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Papers discussed in this category

Journal of clinical pharmacology, 2011-08

Mycophenolic acid pharmacokinetics during maintenance immunosuppression in African American and Caucasian renal transplant recipients.

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 May 02

Association of Higher Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels With Reduced Thrombosis Risk in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Arthritis Rheum,

Low blood concentration of hydroxychloroquine is a marker for and predictor of disease exacerbations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Lupus,

Hydroxychloroquine use predicts complete renal remission within 12 months among patients treated with mycophenolate mofetil therapy for membranous lupus nephritis.

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2020 Jan 07

Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels Predict Hydroxychloroquine Retinopathy.

Transplant Proc,

A prospective analysis of the effects of enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium and mycophenolate mofetil co-medicated with a proton pump inhibitor in kidney transplant recipients at a single institute in China.

Transpl Int, 2014 Aug 22

Do Asian renal transplant patients need another mycophenolate mofetil dose compared with Caucasian or African American patients?

J Clin Med, 2021 Feb 09

Management of Lupus Nephritis.

Therapeutic drug monitoring, 2022 Jun 01

Drug-Drug Interactions Between Mycophenolic Acid and Proton Pump Inhibitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

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