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. 2002 Feb;127(2):293–302. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2002.01754.x

Table 2.

Treatment of children with immunosuppressive drugs and formation of autoantibodies against cytochrome P450s

Serum transaminases
Age at onset of treatment (year) Duration of treatment (year) Pos. population Total population
Pos. pop. Total pop. Pos. pop. Total pop. ALAT (U/l) ASAT (U/l) γGT (μkat/l) ALAT (U/l) ASAT (U/l) (GT (μkat/l)
Kidney transplant *5 ± 4 8 ± 5 4 ± 3 4 ± 3 720 800 1·6 230 400 0·24
70–2480 270–1980 0·18–10 60–2820 180–1280 0·15–9·6
Nephrotic/kidney transplant 1·3 ± 0·5 9 ± 5 4·5 ± 2 5 ± 3
Nephrotic/ 2 6 ± 3 5·5 3 ± 2
Liver disease transplant 3·8 ± 1·3 8·6 ± 7 1 ± 0 3·7 ± 2·5
Total 4·5 ± 3·5 7·6 ± 6 4 ± 2·7 4 ± 3·2

The data shown were obtained from the children described in Table 1. Total = total patient population for which data were available. Age at onset of drug treatments between the patients of positive sera reactivity and the total patient population is statistically significant at

*

P = 0·1, Student’s unpaired t-test. The values of laboratory tests for serum transaminase are given as the mean and range. NA, Values not available.