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Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery
Gastric bypass surgery, also called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), can result in the malabsorption of medications, requiring the use of higher than usual doses in order to achieve a therapeutic effect. We describe the results of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) blood levels in three patients with systemic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6577310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2019-000335 |
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author | Thomas, Donald E Lyons, Jonathan S Greene, Barry S Petri, Michelle A |
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description | Gastric bypass surgery, also called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), can result in the malabsorption of medications, requiring the use of higher than usual doses in order to achieve a therapeutic effect. We describe the results of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) blood levels in three patients with systemic autoimmune disease taking standard HCQ doses and their associated disease activity levels. This is a retrospective review of all patients who had undergone RYGB and were taking HCQ in a rheumatology community-based practice. Two patients with SLE and one patient with primary Sjogren’s syndrome had previously undergone RYGB. All three had subtherapeutic HCQ blood levels and active disease. Increasing their HCQ doses above the recommended 400 mg a day dosing resulted in therapeutic HCQ levels in all three patients and better disease control in two of the three patients. RYGB patients may not absorb HCQ adequately, resulting in subtherapeutic HCQ blood levels and inadequate disease control. Patients who have undergone RYGB and are taking HCQ should have drug levels monitored. RYGB patients may require higher than recommended doses of HCQ in order to achieve better disease control and avoid unneeded additional immunosuppressive agents. |
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spelling | pubmed-65773102019-07-02 Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery Thomas, Donald E Lyons, Jonathan S Greene, Barry S Petri, Michelle A Lupus Sci Med Case Report Gastric bypass surgery, also called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), can result in the malabsorption of medications, requiring the use of higher than usual doses in order to achieve a therapeutic effect. We describe the results of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) blood levels in three patients with systemic autoimmune disease taking standard HCQ doses and their associated disease activity levels. This is a retrospective review of all patients who had undergone RYGB and were taking HCQ in a rheumatology community-based practice. Two patients with SLE and one patient with primary Sjogren’s syndrome had previously undergone RYGB. All three had subtherapeutic HCQ blood levels and active disease. Increasing their HCQ doses above the recommended 400 mg a day dosing resulted in therapeutic HCQ levels in all three patients and better disease control in two of the three patients. RYGB patients may not absorb HCQ adequately, resulting in subtherapeutic HCQ blood levels and inadequate disease control. Patients who have undergone RYGB and are taking HCQ should have drug levels monitored. RYGB patients may require higher than recommended doses of HCQ in order to achieve better disease control and avoid unneeded additional immunosuppressive agents. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6577310/ /pubmed/31275579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2019-000335 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Thomas, Donald E Lyons, Jonathan S Greene, Barry S Petri, Michelle A Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery |
title | Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery |
title_full | Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery |
title_fullStr | Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery |
title_full_unstemmed | Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery |
title_short | Low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery |
title_sort | low hydroxychloroquine blood levels in patients who have had gastric bypass surgery |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6577310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2019-000335 |
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