Use of 6-Mercapturine/Azathioprine as the Immunomodulator of Choice for Moderately Active Crohnʼs Disease

Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: What Children Can Teach Adults

“…The benefit of this approach is that corticosteroid use will be minimized, and the adverse effects of steroids on growth and bone development can be avoided. Others argue that uniformly giving 6‐MP will unnecessarily subject a considerable number of patients to a potent immunomodulatory drug 40,41. Hopefully, additional studies will identify the subset of patients that will benefit most from early initiation of 6‐MP.…”

“…Others argue that uniformly giving 6-MP will unnecessarily subject a considerable number of patients to a potent immunomodulatory drug. 40,41 Hopefully, additional studies will identify the subset of patients that will benefit most from early initiation of 6-MP.…”