Efficacy and safety of long-term phenobarbital therapy of familial cholestasis
1978
Two brothers with progressive familial intraheptic cholestasis were followed during four years of phenobarbital therapy to assess its long-term safety and efficacy. Effects attributable to phenobarbital included sustained relief of pruritus, lowering of serum bilirubin levels, and enhanced hepatic excretion of 131 I-rose bengal; serum bile acid levels were only transiently decreased. Two brief interruptions in therapy resulted in symptomatic deterioration. Phenobarbital did not retard growth nor impede the response to vitamin D therapy of concomitant rickets.
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