Mesalamine Intolerance in Three Children with Crohn's Disease
MEDICAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, cilt.25, sa.3, ss.293-295, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2016
- Doi Numarası: 10.1159/000442946
- Dergi Adı: MEDICAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.293-295
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Children, Crohn's disease, Mesalamine, Side effect, 5-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID, DIARRHEA, EXACERBATION
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Objective: To present the mesalamine-induced acute exacerbation of symptoms and inflammatory markers in children with Crohn's disease (CD). Clinical Presentation and Intervention: Three children who presented with CD had acute exacerbation of colitis symptoms or elevated inflammatory markers when mesalamine was added to treatment while tapering/ceasing steroid treatment. While on steroid treatment, the patients maintained clinical and laboratory remission, but with the initiation of mesalamine treatment, they had abdominal pain and bloody mucoid diarrhoea and/or elevation of white blood cell count, C-reactive protein level and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Bacterial pathogens were excluded from the urine, throat and blood cultures, parasites with stool examination, viral pathogens with serology. Within 3-7 days after the mesalamine treatment had been stopped, the patients showed improvement of colitis symptoms and normalisation of white blood cell count, C-reactive protein level and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Conclusion: In this study mesalamine mimicked CD relapse in children with CD while tapering or after stopping steroid treatment. Awareness of this side effect of mesalamine could prevent a misdiagnosis of steroid dependency. (C) 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel