TABLE 5.
Additional treatments for steroids-refractory immune-mediated hepatitis from case reports.
Additional treatments | Time for recovery of liver parameters | Ref |
MMF 1 g/day for 1 week plus ATG 1.5 mg/kg/day for 2 consecutive days | 1 month from the start of the ATG | Chmiel et al. (2011) |
MMF 500 mg twice-daily plus intravenous ATG 1.5 mg/kg/day for 2 consecutive days | After 49 days | Motomura et al. (2020) |
MMF 1 g/day plus two intravenous doses of ATG of 100 and 50 mg for 2 consecutive days | After 162 days | McGuire et al. (2018) |
MMF 1 g twice daily for 2 weeks plus ATG for 2 dosages | After 2 eeks | Ahmed et al. (2015) |
ATG 100 mg/day | After 5 days | Spankuch et al. (2017) |
MMF 500 mg plus tacrolimus 500 mg twice daily | After 186 days | McIlwaine et al. (2022) |
MMF 1 g twice daily plus tacrolimus 5 mg/kg/day | N/A | Cheung et al. (2019) |
MMF 1 g plus tacrolimus 1.5 mg/kg twice daily | After 9 weeks | Ziogas et al. (2020) |
Cyclosporine 100 mg twice daily | After 40 days | Huffman et al. (2018) |
Oral AZA with 100 mg/day | After 1 month | Iwamoto et al. (2017) |
UDCA 600 mg/day plus bezafibrate 400 mg/day | After 35 days | Onishi et al. (2020) |
Oral MMF 2 g/day plus UDCA | After 56 days | Doherty et al. (2017) |
MMF 1.5 g/day plus plasma exchange (1,500 ml of 5% albumin plus 4 units of plasma, every other day) | After 2 weeks | Riveiro-Barciela et al. (2019) |
MMF, mycophenolate mofetil; ATG, anti-thymocyte globulin; AZA, azathioprine; UDCA, ursodeoxycholic acid.