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Goals of mild constipation IBS treatment?

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Increase dietary fiber and fluid intake

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Goals of moderate constipation IBS treatment?

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Add bulk forming laxatives with or without antispasmodics

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Goals of severe constipation IBS treatment?

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Add chloride channel activator

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Goals of mild diarrhea IBS treatment?

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  • Dietary restriction

- Avoid contributing meds

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Goals of moderate diarrhea IBS treatment?

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-Add loperamide or other antispasmodics

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Goals of severe diarrhea IBS treatment?

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Add 5HT3 antagonists

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IBS diarrhea drug choices

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  1. Loperamide
  2. Anticholinergics
  3. Serotonin receptor blockers
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IBS constipation drug choices

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  1. Fiber supplements
  2. Osmotic laxatives
  3. Cl Channel Activators
  4. Guanylate Agonist
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Describe antispasmodics

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  • Anticholinergic (anti-SLUD)
  • Used for diarrhea
  • Side effects are dry mouth, blurred vision, urinary retention, constipation
  • Dicyclomine
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What are TCAs and what type of IBS are they used to treat?

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  • Tricyclic Antidepressants
  • Anticholinergic action
  • Decreases GI secretion and motility
  • Used for diarrhea
  • May help chronic abdominal pain
  • Amitriptyline, desipramine
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What are 5HT3 receptor blockers and what type of IBS are they used to treat?

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  • Serotonin receptor blockers
  • Mediate visceral pain
  • Inhibits colonic motility
  • Used for diarrhea
  • Alosetron
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What is Alosetron and how is it used?

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  • Selective 5HT3 blocker

- Used for severe diarrhea IBS in women (efficacy in men not established)

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Side effects of Alosetron?

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  • Constipation (can be severe)

- Ischemic colitis (fatalities reported, black box warning)

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Describe bulk forming laxatives

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  • Anti constipation

- Form bulky emollient gel that distends colon and promotes peristalsis

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Describe osmotic laxatives

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  • Anti constipation

- Nonabsorbable compounds that result in increased stool liquidity (due to obligate increase in fecal fluid)

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What are chloride channel activators?

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  • Approved for constipation IBS in women (efficacy in men not shown)
  • Lubiprostone/Amitiza
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What is Lubiprostone?

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  • Chloride channel activator
  • For constipation IBS in women
  • Works on small intestine
  • Enhances Cl-rich secretions and intestinal motility
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Contraindications of lubiprostone? Adverse effects?

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  • Avoid in women of CBP (preg cat C)

- Nausea, diarrhea, HA

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What is linaclotide?

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  • Guanylate agonist
  • Used for constipation
  • Causes rise of cGMP leading to rise of Cl and bicarb into intestinal lumen
  • Fluid increases, transit time decreases
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Side effects of linaclotide?

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  • Diarrhea
  • Flatulence
  • GI upset
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What are serotonin 5HT4 receptor blockers?

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  • Results in release of NTs promoting peristaltic reflex
  • Proximal bowel contraction and distal bowel relaxation
  • For constipation
  • No agent available in US
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Drug classes for IBD treatment

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  • Aminosalicylates
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Purine analogs
  • MTX
  • Anti-TNF
  • Anti-integrins
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Drugs for mild IBD

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  1. 5-aminosalicylates
  2. Abx
  3. Topical corticosteroids
  4. Budesonide
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Drugs for moderate IBD

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  1. Azathioprine/6-mercaptopurine
  2. MTX
  3. Oral corticosteroids
  4. TNF blockers
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Drugs for severe IBD
1. IV corticosteroids 2. TNF blockers 3. Cyclosporine 4. Natalizumab 5. Surgery
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What is the active compound of all aminosalicylates?
5-ASA
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MOA of aminosalicylates?
Unclear - May affect inflamm mediators - May interfere w/cytokine production - May inhibit immune cells
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How do aminosalicylates work in IBD treatment?
- Topically on affected areas of GI mucosa - So must get to affected site - Pure oral 5-ASA is more than 80% absorbed which means little left over to go to needed area - Formulations are made to avoid so much absorption
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What are the different formulations of aminosalicylates?
- Azo compounds | - Mesalamine compounds
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What are the azo aminosalicylate drugs?
- Sulfasalazine - Olsalzine - Balsalazide
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What are the mesalamine aminosalicylate drugs?
- Pentasa - Asacol - Lialda
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How do azo compounds work?
- N=N azo bond reduces absorption after oral absorption | - At ileum and colon, bacteria cleave the molecules and release active 5-ASA
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How do mesalamine compounds work?
- Each is uniquely formulated to deliver 5-ASA - Pentasa is timed-release microgranules - Asacol, apriso, lialda are coated in a pH resin that dissolves in distal ileum and colon
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Mesalamine compounds provide ___ concentrations to sites in ___ GI tract
High | Lower
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What drug class is considered first line in mild to moderate UC?
Aminosalicylates
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Sulfasalazine limitations
- Many pts can't tolerate dosing - Many ADRs (nausea, HA, arthralgias) - Hypersensitivity reactions
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What supplementation does sulfasalazine require?
Folic acid due to impaired absorption
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MOA of glucocorticoids in IBD
Inhibit production of inflammatory cytokines like TNF-a, IL-1, IL-8
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How are glucocorticoids used in IBD?
- Moderate to severe disease | - Helpful in early treatment but not to maintain remissions
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What is the MC oral glucocorticoid used for IBD?
Prednisone
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What is budesonide and how is it used?
- Oral prednisolone analog | - Used in mild to moderate Crohn's
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Side effects of glucocorticoids
- Hyperglycemia - Adrenal suppression - Peptic ulcers - Immunosuppresion
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Describe purine analogs
- Oral - Delayed onset of action of several weeks due to metabolic conversions - Azothioprine to 6-MP to 6-thioguanine
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How do purine analogs work in IBD?
- Provide immunosuppressive action - Used to induce and maintain remissions in both UC and Crohn's - Often used with steroids to reduce steroid dose
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ADRs of purine analogs
- NV - Bone marrow suppression - Liver toxicity - Hypersensitivity reactions
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Which med should be avoided when taking purine analogs?
- Allopurinol | - Can cause leukopenia
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What is methotrexate?
- Folic acid analog - Anti-inflamm in low doses (cytotoxic at high doses) - Used to induce or maintain remission in Crohn's (unknown effect in UC)
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ADRs of MTX
- Myelosuppression, mucositis, alopecia | - Liver toxicity
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How do anti-integrins work?
- Prevent inflamm cells from using integrins to bind to vascular cells - Used for refractory Crohn's
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What is natalizumab and how is it used?
- Anti-integrin - Mod to severe Crohn's - Requires pt enrollment in CD touch due to adverse effects
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What should happen if patients are on steroids and then given natalizumab?
Taper once response is observed
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Major ADR of natalizumab
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy - A/w exposure to JC virus - Occurs in IC pts - Increased duration of med increases risk
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What are the MC causes of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma?
HBV and HCV
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Goal of hepatitis treatments?
Suppressive rather than curative
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HAV treatment
- NONE | - Vaccine to prevent
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Drug classes for HBV treatments
- Nucleoside/tide analogs | - Interferons
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How are nucleoside/tide analogs used in HBV treatment?
Usually combined with interferon
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What is lamivudine?
- Nucleoside/tide analog - Inhibits HBV DNA pol - Requires phosphorylation to become activated
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What is adefovir dipivoxil?
- Nucleoside analog - Inhibits HBV DNA pol - 2nd line treatment - Less toxic than other nucleosides
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What is entecavir?
- Nucleoside analog - Inhibits HBV DNA pol - Effective in lamivudine-resistant strains - Take on EMPTY stomach
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What is telbivudine?
- Nucleoside analog - Inhibits HBV DNA pol - Requires phosphorylation to active form - Give with or w/o food
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What is tenofovir?
- Nucleotide analog of adenosine | - Inhibits reverse transcriptase
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Describe interferons
- Family of cytokines, provide antiviral action | - Alfa (2a and 2b), beta, gamma available
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IFN alfa 2a is used to treat:
HBV AND HCV
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IFN alfa 2b is used to treat:
ONLY HCV
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Treatment options for HCV:
- IFN alfa 2a or 2b - Ribavirin - Telapravir - Boceptrevir
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How is treatment of HCV directed?
Based on genotype
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Describe IFN used to treat HCV
- Genotypes 3-6 - Often used w/ribavirin - Were once cornerstone of treatment but now newer agents available
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Describe ribavirin
- Guanosine analog for HCV - Blocks RNA dependent RNA pol - Available oral or IV - Combined with IFN
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Describe simeprevir
- Inhibits HCV NS3/4A protease | - 1st line treatment w/other agents
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What is currently recommended as 1st line treatment w/other agents for HCV?
Simeprevir (NS3/4A protease inhibitor)
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Describe paritaprevir
- HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor - Often 1st line w/other agents - E.g. viekira pak
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What is ledipasvir and sofosbuvir?
- NS5A inhibitors for HCV tx | - 1st line agent
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How are HCV genotypes 5 and 6 treated?
Peg-IFN alfa 2a WITH ribavirin for 48 weeks
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What are the protease inhibitors used to treat HCV?
- Simeprevir - Paritaprevir - Boceprevir
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What are the NS5A protein inhibitors used to treat HCV?
- Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir - Ombitasvir - Sofosbuvir and Dasabuvir
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What is 1st line to treat ascites?
Diuretics
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Meds for variceal bleeding prophylaxis?
-Nonselective B blockers (propranolol, nadolol)
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Meds for acute variceal hemorrhage?
- Vasoconstrictors (octreotide, vasopressin) | - Abx
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Meds for spontaneous bacterial pritonitis?
-Abx (cefotaxime)
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Treatment of hepatic encephalopathy?
- Targeted to decrease NH3 blood concentration (via abx) - Neomycin and metronidazole - Rifaximin

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