Vancomycin and primary sclerosing cholangitis

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Dear All;

I'd like to initiate a discussion about this rather obscure paper:

J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 1998 Nov;27(5):580-3.

Oral vancomycin: treatment of primary sclerosing cholangitis in

children with inflammatory bowel disease.

KL, KM

Department of Pediatrics, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital

at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.

PMID: 9822326

You can access the full text at:

www.jpgn.org/pt/re/jpgn/fulltext.00005176-199811000-00015.htm

The paper describes " three children with sclerosing cholangitis and

inflammatory bowel disease whose liver tests and symptoms improved

when treated with oral vancomycin " .

As I understand it, Dr. is currently treating a larger number of

patients with this antibiotic. Is anyone in this group enrolled in

this study, and if so, are they willing to comment about it?

Many thanks,

Best regards,

Dave

(father of (21); PSC 07/03; UC 08/03)