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While inflammation is an important element in the defense against infection, it can also contribute to cholestatic biliary diseases and cholelithiasis.
Sulfasalazine (SSZ) is a widely used and highly effective anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis [ 1 2 3 ] . SSZ is also being used with increasing frequency in the treatment of various rheumatolgical disorders [ 4 5 6 7 ] . SSZ is preferred over other agents such as gold and penicillamine in rheumatology patients due to its more favorable side effect profile [ 8 9 10 ] . Nonetheless, rash, fever, and dyspepsia occur in 3% to 20% of treated patients [ 7 11 12 ] . These reactions are usually dose dependent and improve with dose reduction or discontinuation [ 7 12 ] . However, more serious but less common side effects have also been reported [ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ] . We now report a severe systemic reaction to SSZ in a 21-year-old female with rheumatoid arthritis characterized by granulomatous infiltration of the bone marrow, colon and small bowel as well as cholestatic hepatitis and seizures.
Some studies have suggested that excessive amino acids, hepatotoxic bile acids, bacterial overgrowth, sepsis, micronutrient deficiency, and TPN contaminants all contribute to cholestatic liver injury [ 4, 5, 6].
To date, the genes that have been shown to be responsive to regulation by FXR encode proteins involved in the biosynthesis and transport of bile acids [ 13 ] . Bile acids have been shown to modulate a variety of other cellular functions, such as secretion of lipoproteins from hepatocytes [ 14 15 ] and translocation of bile acid transporters to the hepatocyte canalicular membrane [ 16 ] . In McNtcp cells, which are liver-derived cells engineered to transport bile acids actively [ 17 ] , taurine-conjugated bile acids induce the formation of intracellular vesicles that resembles structures observed in cholestatic liver cells without apparent cellular cytotoxicity [ 1 18 ] . In contrast, glycine-conjugated bile acids promote apoptosis in these cells [ 19 ] . Thus, different classes of conjugated bile acids stimulate distinctive responses in McNtcp cells.
However, the mechanisms of liver injury in cholestatic diseases in infants remain unclear.
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