What is your approach to the management of anti-pruritic therapies in patients with cholestatic liver disease?
Any management considerations with respect to disease etiology?
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Hepatology · University of Chicago
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If the patient has PBC, the newer FDA PPAR drugs (elafibranor and seladelpar) for PBC have an anti-pruritic effect, though they are mainly approved to lower ALP and are thought to be disease-modifying.
For PFIC and Allagille syndrome, IBAT inhibitors (odevixibat and maralixibat) are helpful and are ...
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