This case study follows a 20-year old young man with ulcerative colitis and elevated AST, ALT, Alkaline Phosphatase, and IgG4, as well as narrowed bile ducts and liver inflammation and fibrosis. While steroids lowered his liver enzymes in the him short-term, they increased when he tapered off, so he was prescribed oral vancomycin (OV) at […]
Open-Label Prospective Therapeutic Clinical Trials: Oral Vancomycin in Children and Adults with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
This research paper documents the impacts of oral vancomycin on the GGT, ALP, and ALT of 59 PSC patients. If patients weighed less than 30 kg, they took 50 mg vancomycin per kg each day. If patients weighed more than 30 kg, they took 500 mg vancomycin 3x each day. 96% experienced reduction of GGT, […]