Placebo‐Controlled Randomized Trial of an Intestinal Bile Salt Transport Inhibitor for Pruritus in Alagille Syndrome

Abstract Medically refractory, severe, cholestasis‐induced pruritus in Alagille syndrome may be improved by surgical interruption of the enterohepatic circulation. This multicenter trial (NCT02057692) tested the hypothesis that the intestinal bile acid transport inhibitor maralixibat would similarly...

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Main Authors: Benjamin L. Shneider, Cathie Spino, Binita M. Kamath, John C. Magee, Lee M. Bass, Kenneth D. Setchell, Alexander Miethke, Jean P. Molleston, Cara L. Mack, Robert H. Squires, Karen F. Murray, Kathleen M. Loomes, Philip Rosenthal, Saul J. Karpen, Daniel H. Leung, Stephen L. Guthery, Danny Thomas, Averell H. Sherker, Ronald J. Sokol, for the Childhood Liver Disease Research Network
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Health/LWW 2018-10-01
Series:Hepatology Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/hep4.1244