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. 2023 Jan 9;13:1077468. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1077468

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.