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Successful treatment of AIDS-related cryptosporidial sclerosing cholangitis
A A Hamour1, A Bonnington, B Hawthorne
1Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University of Manchester, UK.
AIDS (London, England)
|November 1, 1993
Abstract
Objective:
Cryptosporidium is a well recognized cause of AIDS-related sclerosing cholangitis for which no efficacious therapy exists at present. We evaluated the efficiency of the combination of paromomycin and letrazuril in the treatment of this condition.
Case Report:
We report a case of cryptosporidial cholangitis in a patient with AIDS who responded to treatment with intravenous paromomycin followed by oral letrazuril as maintenance therapy.
Conclusion:
The combination of paromomycin and letrazuril should be considered in the treatment of AIDS-related sclerosing cholangitis.