Gastroenterology

Neurology

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?

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How do you approach managing nausea and GI side effects when initiating methotrexate?

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How would you approach additional workup and management of a patient with active Crohn’s disease, who has multiple lung and brain nodules, with lung pathology demonstrating necrotizing granulomatous inflammation and brain biopsy with granulomatous inflammation and medium-large vessel vasculitis?

The patient is on mesalamine for Crohn’s and CellCept and HCQ for skin manifestations (currently on hold during workup). The infectious workup i...

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Does pregabalin contribute to esophagitis or gastroparesis?

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In patients chronically treated for Wilson's disease with trientine hydrochloride (Syprine®), would you expect development of neurologic symptoms?

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Do you discontinue or adjust azathioprine when a patient develops elevated MCV after starting it?

When it seems fairly certain that this is a drug effect is it something that can just be monitored or requires a change in approach?

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Papers discussed in this category

Gut, 2006 May 18

Clinical presentation, diagnosis and long-term outcome of Wilson's disease: a cohort study.

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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