Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 17: 318-319
© 2002 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association
Letters
Disappearance of measurable mycophenolate mofetil (Cell Cept®) in a patient with a renal transplant and an ileostomy
Department of Medicine, Renal Unit, Central Hospital of Rogaland, Stavanger, Norway
Sir,
Mycophenolate mofetil is a potent, uncompetitive, reversible inhibitor of eukaryotic inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase. It is effective in the suppression of acute allograft rejection following cadaveric renal transplantation when given orally twice daily in combination with cyclosporin and steroids [1]. Its clinical pharmacology, including its intestinal absorption characteristics, has been
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