柏林消息:据纽约Lenox Hill医院内科胃肠组主任Burton Korelitz称,6-巯基嘌呤是治疗各种类型节段性回肠炎(Crohn’s disease)的一种有效制剂。 Korelitz在此地召开的第18届欧洲胃肠病学和内窥镜联合会会议上说,过去12年,用此药治疗了400多名病人,结果证明此药非常有助于Crohn氏病引起的肠瘘愈合,减少通常治疗此病的类固醇剂量或可停药。 BERLIN: According to Burton Korelitz, director of the Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, 6-mercaptopurine is an effective agent for the treatment of various Crohn’s disease. Korelitz told the 18th European Conference on Gastroenterology and Endoscopy here that in the past 12 years more than 400 patients have been treated with this drug and the results prove that this medicine is very helpful to Crohn’s disease Intestinal fistula heals, reducing the dose of steroids usually treated for the disease or can be discontinued.