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Azathioprine-related cholestatic jaundice in heart transplant patients
G P Perini1, C Bonadiman, G P Fraccaroli
1Division of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Gastroenterology, University of Verona, Italy.
The Journal of Heart Transplantation
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
Azathioprine is an immunosuppressive drug occasionally indicted as the cause of some episodes of acute cholestasis. The case described confirms the possibility of acute, severe, and reversible cholestatic hepatopathy of iatrogenic (toxic rather than idiosyncratic) origin.