• The bile acid sequestrants are a group of resins used to bind certain components of bile in the gastrointestinal tract. They disrupt the enterohepatic...
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    Bile acids are steroid acids found predominantly in the bile of mammals and other vertebrates. Diverse bile acids are synthesized in the liver. Bile acids...
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  • primary disorder, associated with excessive bile acid production. Treatment with bile acid sequestrants is often effective. Depending on the severity...
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    acid Chenodeoxycholic acid Glycocholic acid Taurocholic acid Deoxycholic acid Lithocholic acid Medicine portal Animals portal Bile acid sequestrant Enterohepatic...
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  • postcholecystectomy syndrome is a type of bile acid diarrhea (type 3). This can be treated with a bile acid sequestrant like cholestyramine, colestipol or colesevelam...
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    Colestyramine (category Bile acid sequestrants)
    names Questran, Questran Light, Cholybar, Olestyr) is a bile acid sequestrant, which binds bile in the gastrointestinal tract to prevent its reabsorption...
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    Colestipol (category Bile acid sequestrants)
    Colestipol (trade names Colestid, Cholestabyl) is a bile acid sequestrant used to lower blood cholesterol, specifically low-density lipoprotein (LDL)...
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    Colesevelam (category Bile acid sequestrants)
    Colesevelam is a bile acid sequestrant administered orally. It was developed by GelTex Pharmaceuticals and later acquired by Genzyme. It is marketed in...
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    Fenofibrate (redirect from Fenofibric acid)
    need therapy modifications: Bile acid sequestrants (e.g. cholestyramine, colestipol, etc.): If taken together, bile acid resins may bind to fenofibrate...
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    with bile acid sequestrants. The enterohepatic circulation of bile acids is reduced in these patients with ileal abnormalities and, as the normal bile acid...
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  • used, and its use is "controversial". Colestyramine is an oral bile acid sequestrant used to reduce levels of circulating thyroid hormone in thyrotoxic...
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  • processes in which an organism accumulates a compound or tissue: Bile acid sequestrant Pulmonary sequestration Pyrrolizidine alkaloid sequestration Chelation...
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    Bitot's spots. They can also be caused by Colestyramine , which is a bile acid sequestrant which can reduce the absorption of fat soluble vitamins (Vitamins...
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  • Nicotinic acid C10AD03 Nicofuranose C10AD04 Aluminium nicotinate C10AD05 Nicotinyl alcohol (pyridylcarbinol) C10AD06 Acipimox C10AD52 Nicotinic acid, combinations...
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  • concurrent aspirin. Bile acid binding resins, such as colestipol, cholestyramine, and colesevelam, function by binding bile acids, increasing their excretion...
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    30% of people with D-IBS have this condition, and most respond to bile acid sequestrants. Several medical conditions, or comorbidities, appear with greater...
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  • Bile acid sequestrants (resins, e.g. cholestyramine) are particularly effective for lowering LDL-C by sequestering the cholesterol-containing bile acids...
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  • second, or third line agents - this includes Bromocriptine, the bile acid sequestrant Colesevelam, α-glucosidase inhibitors, Thiazolidinediones (glitazones)...
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    [citation needed] Heterozygous FH is normally treated with statins, bile acid sequestrants, or other lipid-lowering agents that lower cholesterol levels. New...
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    however. In people who have undergone gallbladder removal, the bile acid sequestrant cholestyramine may help minor degrees of FI. Bulking agents also...
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  • found that use of a bile acid sequestrant was associated with a significant reduction in gastric cancer risk, suggesting that bile acids may be a contributory...
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    hypercholesterolemia. Colestipol and cholestyramine are known as bile acid sequestrants. Ion-exchange resins are also used as excipients in pharmaceutical...
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    at relieving symptoms such as itching with antipruritics (e.g. bile acid sequestrants such as cholestyramine); antibiotics to treat episodes of ascending...
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    Bacterial overgrowth. Cholestyramine or other bile acid sequestrants will help with reducing diarrhoea in bile acid malabsorption. Fructose malabsorption Protein...
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    Colestilan (category Bile acid sequestrants)
    as a phosphate binder and bile acid sequestrant. It is an ion-exchange resin, is an orally administered bile acid sequestrant that is being developed by...
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    serious. Non-statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, (e.g., niacin and the bile acid sequestrants drugs cholestyramine, colestipol, colesevelam, alirocumab, and evolocumab)...
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  • ) Certain ion-exchange resins are also used pharmaceutically as bile acid sequestrants, mainly as hypolipidemic agents, although they may be used for purposes...
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  • Colextran (category Bile acid sequestrants)
    Colextran (INN) is a bile acid sequestrant. Chemically, it is an ether of dextran and diethylethanolamine. Drugs.com: Colextran Archived 2019-08-18 at...
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    supplements, iron products, laxatives containing magnesium, or bile acid sequestrants is not inherently dangerous, but any of these foods and supplements...
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    predictive value for FGF19 in diagnosis of primary bile acid diarrhea and response to bile acid sequestrants was demonstrated. FGF19 is also found in the liver...
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